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When a dactyl may be replaced by a spondee, I will note it as /IB/. Although we now approach ancient texts primarily through the written word, they were originally meant for performance. •elision is the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking this occurs in poetry when two vowels in different words Well, I'm scanning my homework (scanning isn't the homework, sadly, I'm just doing it for fun.) and I'm stuck on two lines in Ovid's Apollo and Daphne. Meter & Dactylic Hexameter •all Latin poetry was written in meter, or a particular rhythm determined by the combination of long and. Having a quick way to scan lines makes reciting Roman poetry aloud easier, allowing an audience beyond just "Latin people" to appreciate the beauty of Latin rhythmical patterns, as well as the beauty of the language itself. followed by double consonants or the consonants x or z. Scansion is the act of determining the meter of a particular line of poetry. In linguistics, an elision or deletion is broadly defined as the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris. It'll also tell you to check if it thinks there might be a problem because the line is weird (eg the rare spondaic fifth foot in hexameter).- Owing to the elision of –m before all vowels, and unavoidable syllable lengthening before the … — — — — — — — k k — k k — — 5: Scansion. Click on 'scansione libere' in the sidebar and use it to check your work. Mostly he's not much harder than Ovid or Statius, but he has some weird lines.Īs well as, Pede Certo is another tool I like, though it's in Italian. Once you get hexameter and the rules of syllable length nailed down, pentameter will come quite naturally.īe careful with Virgil. And you know the last syllable of the first half is long, so all you really need to worry about is the first two feet. With pentameter, you know the second half of the line is dactyl-dactyl-long. Another thing that helps is to find some text printed with macrons and read it out loud, paying attention to the vowel length. Lots of exceptions.) When I was learning, I would print out a bunch of Latin and then scan it, checking the rules if I needed to, until eventually I didn't need them. If you can get hold of Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer, it has some rules at the back. So for 'amat illam', -at is short, but in 'amat filiam' -at scans as long. a vowel before final l, d, or t is short, unless the next word starts with a consonant so that you have a vowel followed by two consonants (long by position). Not all syllables that end in a consonant are long. How did you learn to scan/practice scanning? Are there any apps I should check out apart from the Latin Scansion app? Any 'beginner poets' for scansion? I decided to be ambitious and continue scanning 'Non ego nobilium sedeo.' but I just find it hard to maintain the rhythm, especially when feet go across multiple words. So it goes long long long short short long short long short long long. This is what Orberg says: spondee/dactyl/trochee (long short)/trochee/trochee or spondee.

However, the meter just confuses me because it sounds like a tap dance. I understand that there are 11 syllables and that it is a 'fixed form'. Spondees are not admitted into the second set of 2.5 feet. So you could have dactyl/spondee/LONG, then a pause, then dactyl/dactyl/LONG.

This means that the 0.5 foot must be a long syllable. The last foot of a hexameter is often a spondee. Hexameter has 6 feet and is made up of dactyls (long short short) and spondees (long long). I understand three meters so far: Hendecasyllabic, hexameter, and pentameter. I understand that syllables can elide into one another when the next syllable starts with a vowel/h.

puella in the ablative singular has a long 'a') I understand that long syllables are those which end in a consonant, or in a long vowels (eg. I understand that short syllables are those which end in short vowels. I'll just list the things I understand, and those which I do not. Also I think it's really cool that some people can scan through a whole poem mentally and I'd like to get to that stage. I'd like to study this more at home so that I can appreciate poetry better. I'm currently going through scansion for the first time with my teacher and it is just confusing me. In order to get more responses I will write this post in English.