Scansion Subtleties Assignment by Wendy Braff | Jan 30, 2024 BACK TO LABS HOME PAGE [toolset_access role="Author" operator="allow"] BACK TO EVALUATOR HOME PAGE [/toolset_access] Assignment Name: Scansion Subtleties Assignment Date Taken: January 30, 2024 ASSIGNMENT DETAILS: 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 │ / Print Assignment ================================================================================================ EVALUATION: Evaluation Date: February 5, 2024 Evaluation Grade: 100 / 100 Pass?: YES (a pass is 84) Evaluation Sound File: https://www.writingmusicaltheatre.com/wp-content/uploads/larrytodd/wendy.mp3 ================================================================================================ UPLOAD YOUR ASSIGNMENT: DOCUMENT FILE: combinepdf.pdf LINK TO VIEW YOUR UPLOADED DOCUMENT FILE Note: You can only upload one document, so if your work for this Scansion Subtleties Assignment Assignment is in more than one part, please combine it into one document before submitting. 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