![]() ![]() Dactylic foot uses a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. This is a good example of dactylic dimeter with two feet in each line. Example #5: The Charge of the Light Brigade (by Alfred Lord Tennyson) The rhyme scheme of this stanza is ABCBB. The metrical pattern of this stanza is trochaic octameter in which eight stressed syllables are followed by eight unstressed syllables. “ tis some visi ter,” I mu ttered, “ tapping at my chamber door. ![]() While I nodded, nea rly napping, suddenl y there came a tapping,Īs of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Over many a quaint and cu rious vo l ume of forgot ten lore, Once up on a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Example #4: The Raven (by Edgar Allan Poe) You can see the first, second and fourth lines have used iambic tetrameter, while the third line has used tetrameter. However, there is no strict meter, as it is a free verse poem. Though first two lines rhyme in this example. Example #3: Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town (by E.E Cumming) This pattern repeats five times, which means it is iambic pentameter with un-rhyming lines known as blank verse. These lines contained unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables, which are underlined. Example #2: Twelfth Night (by William Shakespeare) The stressed and unstressed pattern of the syllables show that the poem has used iambic tetrameter with alternating iambic trimeter, while the rhyme scheme used is ABAB. In this example, strong or stressed syllables are underlined. Examples of Scansion in Literature Example #1: Hope is the Thing With Feathers (By Emily Dickinson) Scansion is also known as “scanning,” which is, in fact, a description of rhythms of poetry through break up of its lines or verses into feet, pointing the locations of accented and unaccented syllables, working out on meter, as well as counting the syllables. In literature, scansion means to divide the poetry or a poetic form into feet by pointing out different syllables based on their lengths. ![]()
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