Understanding Versification and Scansion in Poetry and Meter Analysis
Explore the world of versification, meter, and scansion in poetry. Learn about different poetic feet like iambic and trochaic, scansion analysis, rhyme schemes, stanzaic patterns, and techniques for analyzing poems and plays.
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Versification Meter The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse Accent: The stress placed upon certain syllables in a line of verse Foot: Basic unit of measurement. A foot consists of two or three syllables, at least one of which is stressed. amb (iambic) : one unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable: ( - / ) examples - / - / compare, control (verb)
Trochee (trochaic) One stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable ( / - ) as in / - / - apple summer
Scansion is to analyse the metrical pattern of the verse; to divide the line of the poem into feet by indicating accents and counting syllables to determine the meter of the poem. One: monometer 2: dimeter 3: trimeter 4:tetrameter 5:pentameter 6: hexameter
Scansion - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art Iambic pentameter - / - / - / - I saw the spiders marching through the air, by Robert Lowell -Iambic pentameter / - / - / - / - / by Alexander Pope / - /
Scansion / - / - / - / - / - There they are, my fifty men and women (Robert Browning) Trochaic pentameter
Rhyme The repetition of the identical or similar stressed sound or sounds Perfect rhyme (full rhyme, true rhyme, exact rhyme) fade-shade down-town Half rhyme Fault-built frost-trust
Stanza : a group lines in a poem. A stanza pattern is determined by the number of lines, meter and rhyme scheme. canto Couplet Heroic couplet Tercet
The analysis of a poem A. Content i. Theme B. Technique i. Language (Figures of Speech) . Punctuation marks and capital letters iii. Rhyme iv. Meter v. Stanzaic pattern
How to analyse a play? 1- When was the play written? When was it first performed? 2- source 3- Setting 4- Plot a. Plot structure b. Chronological order or medias- res c. Well-knitted plot structure or not? d. Cause and effect relation or coincidences?
How to analyse a play? (2) 5- Characters and characterization 6- Style 7- Theme (s)
