Jun 10
the amazing [three-syllable dactylic adjective preferably ending in -al] [two-syllable trochaic noun]
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the amazing [three-syllable dactylic adjective preferably ending in -al] [two-syllable trochaic noun]
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The Aeneid, Virgil, Book 10 line 11
advéniet iústum púgnae, n(e) arcéssite, témpus
/- u u / - - / - || - / - - / - u u / - u /
A just time for battle will come, don't urge it on
Jupiter, at the Council of the Gods, scolds Juno and Venus for disobeying his command, and that of fate, by pitting the Latins and Trojans unnecessarily against eachother. Juno knows the Romans will one day sack her Carthage, and Venus' son is the leader of the Trojans.
The metric structure fights the lexical stress in tye first half of the line (/ādvéni/ēt), and together with the three spondees slowing the line down, the effect created is that the father of gods is making his disappointment known through his unsweet, jerky speaking. The second half, however, coincides naturally with how it would be read in prose (ār/cêssite/ têmpus/)(â = combination of á and ā, idk how to actually write the two accents above eachother), giving the line a final, lasting impact.
Instead of sleeping while on pain pills (after being put under anesthesia for surgery this afternoon) I decided 2:30 am was the perfect time to watch old Barbie movies and create a worksheet to teach scansion tomorrow
We’ll see tomorrow how good drugged me is at scansion but I feel pretty confident
That might just be the drugs talking
goes crazy about michael nesmith and scansion again
i want to like scansion so bad but i just. can never figure out when things are supposed to be considered stressed and unstressed.
like idk somehow everything teachers have ever tried to teach me about stressed and unstressed syllables between elementary school and middle school and multiple high school classes focusing on poetry and now my own independent study and love for poetry just always all can be summed up as “the stressed one is more of the focus when you say it” which is like. thanks i’m asking you know to KNOW if that’s it.
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the all consuming nature of ancient literature is such that i regularly dream about dactylic hexameter 📜🏛️🌾
as someone who knows nothing of poetry, what do the lines and curves mean in the analysis?
On this blog, for English-language poetry,
◡ means an unstressed syllable
– means a stressed syllable
/ means a break between feet (which are minimal repeating units made up of stressed and unstressed syllables, basically)
Useful notes for rewrites
I use a variant of Hamer 3-level notation to indicate scansion on my posts due to its ease of typing and how it resembles Slash & X notation which makes it easier to write songs with simpler scansion.
If you're unfamiliar with the terms for different syllable stress patterns, Wikipedia has a great reference list.