This book also includes a selected bibliography and encourages readers and students to carry their investigations further. of prosody: unaccented syllables are instead grouped with surrounding feet. The word line comes from the Latin linea, itself derived from the word for a thread of linen. Scansion also involves the classification of a poems stanza, structure. Early in the 18th century, Pope affirmed in his Essay on Criticism (1711) the classic doctrine of imitation. We can look at the lines of poetry as slender compositional units forming a weave like that of a textile. Prosody was to be more nearly onomatopoetic the movement of sound and metre should represent the actions they carry: In 18th-century theory the doctrine of imitation was joined to numerous strictures on smoothness, or metrical regularity. Sometimes the term prosody is extended to include also the study of sour. Indeed, the word text has the same origin as the word textile. Disclaimer: The Views and Opinions Expressed in This Post Do Not Reflect the Opinions of This Blogger.Here is a scansion, sign by conventional symbols, of the first five lines.In the next blog post, I’ll show you how they do that.īuy Eric's book here. Eventually students will understand syllable patterns in a series-what Gordon calls “partial synthesis.” Before they do that, students name the metrical feet they have learned to recognize and identify. The previous sentence should ring some bells with MLTers. Uncommon as it is in whole words, the 3-syllable pattern with the final stress takes on great importance when students begin to string syllable patterns together in a series. This syllable pattern is much more common but as you’ll see in later blog posts, it’s not nearly as important in poetic analysis as the pattern unstressed/unstressed/stressed. I also ask students to think of 3-syllable words that follow the pattern unstressed/stressed/unstressed as in the word redundant. Yes, words such as disregard, entertain, imprecise, and understand are rare. Students have a hard time with items 10-12, possibly because most 3-syllable English words are pronounced with a stress on either the first or second syllable, but rarely the third. Stressed/unstressed/unstressed unstressed/unstressed/stressedħ.
I use the slash and the upward curve because they’re big and easily distinguishable.ġ. Also, you should know that macrons and breves look smaller and are shaped slightly differently in books of poetic analysis. It’s totally cool that the poetry term “macron” sounds like the musical term “macro beat.” But let me emphasize that the word “macron” is not the name for the stressed syllable it’s the name for the symbol we use to mark the stressed syllable. In spaces 7-12, write three-syllable words that follow the pattern of the examples.
In spaces 1-6, write two-syllable words that follow the pattern of the examples. Also write an upward curve called a breve (u ) over each unstressed syllable. After you write a word on a line, write a slash called a macron (/) over the stressed syllable in that word. On each line below, write two- and three-syllable words. They must think of words on their own that follow patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. In other words, I ask students to transfer their knowledge about syllable stresses to words I haven’t gone over with them.
In this exercise, I bridge to generalization-aural/oral. (It’s true that students looked at sentences, so technically, the exercise wasn’t strictly aural but for the most part, students were learning by ear.) The first poetry exercise I posted is equivalent to Gordon’s aural/oral level of learning. Scansion is a system of analyzing and marking metrical feet with symbols.Īrmed with that information, you are now ready to read a poetry exercise that I give my sixth grade students fairly early in the school year. A metrical foot is a group of two or three syllables in which at least one syllable is stressed.
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