Scan and identify the rhyming schemes of the following excerpts. You will present your work on Tuesday, January 24, 2011. In your report, you need to give a backgrounder on the poet and the poem. The group must also need to present a visual aid of the scanned excerpt. Please make sure that your visual aid’s text is large enough to be read by everyone in the classroom.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Notes on Scansion
rhythm: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.
meter: the number of feet in a line.
scansion: Describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables.
scansion: Describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables.
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