Scansion Part – V
Please go through the following previous parts of Scansion:
How to Scan a Poem Part-I How to Scan a Poem Part-II How to Scan a Poem Part-III How to Scan a Poem Part-IV How to Scan a Poem Part-VA Foot or Metre is a part of a Verse-line comprising at least two Syllables. A Foot or Metre may be as follows:
- Iambic – One Unaccented syllable followed by an Accented one ( ͝ / )
- Trochee – One Accented Syllable followed by an Unaccented one
- Spondee – Two Consecutive Accented Syllables
- Pyrrhic – Two Consecutive Unaccented Syllables
- ͝ – Unaccented Symbol
- / – Accented Symbol
Iambic Metre
I˘ waˈn-/de˘red loˈne-/ly˘ aˈs/a˘ clouˈd
Tha˘t floˈats/ o˘n hiˈgh/o’˘er vaˈles/a˘nd hiˈlls,
Whe˘n aˈll/a˘t oˈnce/I˘ saˈw/a˘ craˈwd,
A˘ hoˈst/ o˘f goˈld-/e˘n daˈf-/fo˘dils.
– The Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Prosodic Name- All the lines are Iambic Tetrameter
