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Assignment Name: Scansion Subtleties Assignment
Date Taken: January 10, 2020

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Scansion Subtleties Assignment - Part One

Scan the following verses, marking: ictus, mora, virgule.

Label each with its predominant metrical form (e.g., “trochaic tetrameter”

or “trochaic tetrameter, alternating with trochaic trimeter”)

Gather round me, everybody

Gather round me while I preach some.

Feel a sermon comin’ on me.

meter:_________________________

In all the towns and cities fair

On Merry England’s broad expanse,

No swordsman ever could compare

With Thomas Winterbottom Hance.

meter:_________________________

Let’s meet on the road to Morocco,

Instead of the tunnel of love.

meter:_________________________

There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow

There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow.

The corn is as high as an elephant's eye

And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky.

meter:_________________________

What do you do with a B.A. in English?

What is my life going to be?

Four years of college and plenty of knowledge

Have earned me this useless degree.

I can't pay the bills yet, 'cause I have no skills yet.

The world is a big scary place...

meter:_________________________

Columbus and his men, they say,

Conveyed the virus hither,

Whereby my features rot away

And vital powers wither;

Yet had they not traversed the seas

And come infected back,

Why, think of all the luxuries

That modern life would lack!

meter:_________________________

All around the cobbler's bench

The monkey chased the weasel

The monkey thought 'twas all in fun

Pop -- goes the weasel!

Johnny's got the whooping cough and

Mary's got the measles

That's the way the money goes

Pop -- goes the weasel!

meter:_________________________

Oh, what a beautiful mornin'

Oh, what a beautiful day.

I've got a beautiful feelin'

Everything's goin' my way.

meter:_________________________

Don’t be afraid of the future,

All of our plans will come true.

How can they fail with love on our side?

They’ll never fail, we won’t be denied.

meter:_________________________

Scansion Subtleties Assignment - Part Two

Scansion Assignment 2.1 - Write and scan eight lines of iambic tetrameter which are perfect except for even numbered lines in which you are to use iambic trimeter. Use only masculine rhymes. Mark ictus, mora and virgule.

Scansion Assignment 2.2 - Write and scan eight lines of perfect trochaic tetrameter which are perfect except for even numbered lines in which you are to use trochaic trimeter. Use only feminine rhymes. Mark ictus, mora and virgule.

Scansion Assignment 2.3 - Write a quatrain which scans in the following way:

u u / │ u u / │ u u / │ u /

u / │ u u / │ u /

u u / │ u u / │ u u / │ u /

u / │ u u / │ u /

Scansion Assignment 2.4 - Write a quatrain which scans in the following way:

/ u u │ / u u │ / u u │ / u

u │ / u u │ / u u │ /

/ u u │ / u u │ / u u │ / u

u │ / u u │ / u u │ /


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