PPT-Scansion

Dactylic Hexameter What makes Latin poetry poetry since it does not rhyme Although classical Latin poetry does not use endrhymes as a rule it is written in a variety of meters or specific patterns of syllables The rhythm of the poem can add meaning fast feet for excitement slow feet for majesty or sadness and euphony beautiful sound. the process of analyzing and marking the type and number of feet in a line of verse.. Verb – to scan. METER. . the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry. . STRESS. Scansion means analyzing a passage of verse to determine its meter , which generally refers to a line’s type of foot and number of feet per line. Types of feet : 1) Iambic : a light syllab the status of the Analyzing Rhythm & Meter in Poetry. Jennifer A. Bennett. Sanderson High School. Raleigh, North Carolina. Wake County Public School System. Common Vocabulary. Syllabification: . dividing a word into its syllables (each syllable has its own beat). Becoming A Shakespearean Detective. Shakespeare uses: . Blank Verse. Metered Verse. Prose. . AND! . Iambic Pentameter. Shared Lines. Antithesis. Alliteration. Assonance. Consonance . Why Verse? . Rhythm and Meter. Syllables. A syllable is a beat. When a word has one beat, we say it has one syllable; when a word has two beats, we say it has two syllables.. Practice:. . A. How many syllables are in the following examples?. What is "meter"? Meter defines the number of feet in a single line of poetry. For example: monometer - One foot dimeter trimeter Three feet tetramter Dactylic Hexameter. What makes Latin poetry . poetry. since it does not rhyme?. Although classical Latin poetry does not use end-rhymes as a rule, it is written in a variety of meters, or specific patterns of syllables. The rhythm of the poem can add meaning (fast feet for excitement, slow feet for majesty or sadness) and euphony (beautiful sound). Activities:. Belimicus. Rex, p. 152 old & p. 131 new. Latin II. Learning Target: I will read and understand a story, correctly identify nouns’ cases, and demonstrate understanding of English derivatives of Latin words.. Dactylic Hexameter most common meter in Latin poetry commonly employed by both Romans and Greeks in epic poetry e.g. Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Metamorphoses hexameter = six “feet” + dacty (. How classical rhythm . works). Overview. Latin, like may other classical languages, uses quantitative meter for its verse. This means that unlike English, where the accent of a given syllable determines its value in verse, a Latin syllable's value is determined by the length of time it takes to say it.. What makes Latin poetry . poetry. since it does not rhyme?. Although classical Latin poetry does not use end-rhymes as a rule, it is written in a variety of meters, or specific patterns of syllables. The rhythm of the poem can add meaning (fast feet for excitement, slow feet for majesty or sadness) and euphony (beautiful sound).