If a word ends with a vowel (or -m) and the next word starts with a vowel (or h-), the two sounds are ELIDED - slurred together.Ħ - uu - u-u- Hendecasyllables have eleven syllables in each line When you see – marked over a vowel it means it is LONG eg the ablative singular of 1st Declension nouns _ a The symbol for a SHORT vowel is u x denotes a syllable which can be either heavy or light. Heavy syllables contain a ‘long’ vowel and light ones contain a ‘short’ vowel. Instead, it uses patterns of heavy and light syllables. Limping Iambics, Galliambics Dimeters, Trimeters and Tetrameters Hendecasyllables Hexameters Elegiac Couplets (Hexameter plus Pentameter) Asclepiads Sapphics, Alcaics. You can me for help using the Links/contact page of the Pyrrha website.Ĥ SCANSION of poetry - this means analysing the metre There are Appendices at the end to help with the process of scansion. Updates can be found here If this is your first experience of the scansion of poetic metre do not try to remember everything at once - just relax and try to enjoy it! N.B. Other examples will be added from time to time so check for updates. Most of the examples in this presentation are taken from the OCR 2010 GCSE Legacy specification for 2010 with the A2 Catullus selection interspersed. It is not very clear how these two ways of reading Latin verse complemented or competed with each other!Ģ Metre is not something you really need to worry about (you can achieve top marks in public exams without mentioning it!) but it can be useful to understand and be able to use technical terms like: ‘the dactylic metre’ ‘the spondaic feel of this line’ ‘the coincidence of ictus and accent’ ‘early caesura and other pauses’ ‘the two elisions increase the speed’ The metre will influence the basic ‘feel’ of a poem and will give you some indication of what its subject-matter is likely to be. In spoken Latin the penultimate syllable of a word is usually stressed but sometimes it is the one before. The ictus falls on the first syllable of a group. 1 SCANSION In English poetry, metre is governed by where the stress falls, but Latin metre is based on patterns of heavy and light syllables i.e.
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