INTRODUCTION TO SCANNING POETRY INVERSION Inversion is a

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INTRODUCTION TO SCANNING POETRY

INTRODUCTION TO SCANNING POETRY

*INVERSION Inversion is a literary technique in which the words of a sentence or

*INVERSION Inversion is a literary technique in which the words of a sentence or phrase are wrenched out of our normal English syntax, or word order. In English poetry, poets used inversion frequently to accommodate the demands of meter or rhyme.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SCAN POETRY? Scanning is the analysis of a poem

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SCAN POETRY? Scanning is the analysis of a poem to determine its meter. Meter is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

IAMBIC Iamb – A metrical foot in poetry that has an unstressed syllable followed

IAMBIC Iamb – A metrical foot in poetry that has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Example: pro. TECT

TROCHAIC Trochee – A metrical foot made up of an accented (or stressed) syllable

TROCHAIC Trochee – A metrical foot made up of an accented (or stressed) syllable followed by an unaccented (unstressed) syllable. Examples: TAxi, CAREless, DOUble

DACTYLIC Dactyl – a metrical foot of three syllables in which the first syllable

DACTYLIC Dactyl – a metrical foot of three syllables in which the first syllable is stressed and the next two are unstressed. Examples: TENdency, TENderly, JUliet

ANAPESTIC Anapest – A metrical foot that has two unstressed syllable followed by one

ANAPESTIC Anapest – A metrical foot that has two unstressed syllable followed by one stressed. Examples: by re. QUEST

NAME THAT FOOT Monometer = one foot Dimeter = two feet Trimeter = three

NAME THAT FOOT Monometer = one foot Dimeter = two feet Trimeter = three feet Tetrameter = four feet Pentameter = five feet Hexameter = six feet Heptameter or the septenary = seven feet Octameter = eight feet

WHAT’S THE POINT? Sometimes, poets will cheat and change the meter in certain parts

WHAT’S THE POINT? Sometimes, poets will cheat and change the meter in certain parts of the poem. These changes allow poet to subtly emphasize the meaning of the poem. There are three possible kinds of substitution. 1. stressed/unstressed. This is a trochee, and is therefore trochaic substitution. 2. stressed/stressed. This is a spondee, and is therefore spondaic substitution. 3. unstressed/unstressed. This is a pyrrhus, and therefore pyrrhic substitution.

SPONDAIC Spondee -- a metrical foot of two syllables in which both syllables are

SPONDAIC Spondee -- a metrical foot of two syllables in which both syllables are stressed. Example: DIM SEA

PYRRHIC Pyrrhic – a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables Example: “and the”

PYRRHIC Pyrrhic – a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables Example: “and the”

SCANNING EXERCISE The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love Double double

SCANNING EXERCISE The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love Double double toil and trouble I am monarch of all I survey Take her up tenderly

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