Scansion and Rhyme Scheme! Everything you wanted to know…and some things you didn’t!!
Scansion The act of determining the metrical character of a line of verse
Meter and Foot Meter—the stressed and unstressed notation of the words Foot—the unit of meter
Iamb (U/) The falling out faithful friends, renewing is love.
Trochee (/U) Double, double toil and trouble
Anapest (UU/) I am monarch of all I survey
Dactyl (/UU) Take her up tenderly
He thrusts his fists against the post
Workers earn it.
There they are, my fifty men and women
When I consider how my life was spent
Just for a handful of silver he left us
Spondee (//) and Pyrrhic (UU) These are rarely ever for an entire poem because it would sound like nailing a hammer onto a board. Sometimes authors will use it to emphasize a line, however…
Who goes with Fergus? WHO will go drive with Fergus now, And pierce the deep wood's woven shade, And dance upon the level shore? Young man, lift up your russet brow, And lift your tender eyelids, maid, And brood on hopes and fear no more. And no more turn aside and brood Upon love's bitter mystery; For Fergus rules the brazen cars, And rules the shadows of the wood, And the white breast of the dim sea And all dishevelled wandering stars.
Who goes with Fergus? WHO will go drive with Fergus now, And pierce the deep wood's woven shade, And dance upon the level shore? Young man, lift up your russet brow, And lift your tender eyelids, maid, And brood on hopes and fear no more. And no more turn aside and brood Upon love's bitter mystery; For Fergus rules the brazen cars, And rules the shadows of the wood, And the white breast of the dim sea And all dishevelled wandering stars.
And the white breast of the dim sea
Feet! monometer one foot dimeter two feet trimeter three feet tetrameter four feet pentameter five feet hexameter six feet heptameter seven feet octameter eight feet
Types of Rhyme Perfect Rhyme—words are completely in aural correspondence. (Certain and Curtain) Slant Rhyme—The words are similar, but lack perfect correspondence. (Found and kind, grime and game) Masculine Rhyme—has a single stressed syllable (Fight and tight, stove and trove) Feminine Rhyme—a stressed rhyme followed by an unstressed syllabus (carrot and garret, sever and never) Visual Rhyme—a rhyme that only looks similar, but when spoken sounds different
Masculine Days/Haze Fat/Cat Grain/Insane Tough/Buff Cars/Stars Instead/Your head
Feminine Thorough/ Furrow Painted/ Acquainted Passion/ Fashion Pleasure/ Treasure
Which of these lines has feminine rhyme? Which has slant rhyme?
Cease then, nor Order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit. - In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT