
#SCANSION WORKSHEET PDF#
Please keep in mind that these PDF worksheets are different than our online exercises.įor more colorful PDF activities with pictures, vocabulary matching, word-search, etc. The caesura falls on the comma, neatly spitting the line in two.Free Downloadable Spanish PDF worksheets with answers for teachers and students: Although all of our online exercises are also easily printable, here you will find our collection of PDF only Spanish grammar worksheets to have more variety and ease of use. With these bits of information, we can then make the rest of the line fit in and work out where the feet go. The accusative is a short syllable, so the final a in arma is short, so the line is like this:

This means that the final syllable of Troiae is long, so we can then get to this: This means that the second syllable of virumque and the final syllable of cano are both long, so the scansion is like this:ĭipthongs are long.


There are then some rules we need to apply to work out the rest.Ī vowel followed by two consonants is long. We know that the final two feet have to be - u u | - x, so that takes away five syllables, leaving us with ten syllables to divide between four feet.

The first thing to do is count the syllables in the line. I sing of arms and the man, who first, from the shores of Troy. If we take the opening line of the Aeneid as an example:Īrma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab ori So, let's think about this in terms of some actual Latin. u u | - u u | - u u | - u u | - u u | - x The final two feet of hexameter will always be a dactyl followed by a spondee, so the lines will be like this: When this happens, it is not counted for the purpose of scansion. It is marked //Įlision is when the vowel or sometimes a dipthong is not pronounced at the end of a word. It must come at the end of a word, and commonly is found in the third foot, sometimes in the fourth and occasionally elsewhere in the line. It consists of two long syllables and is marked up like this - and sounds dum dumĪ caesura is a break in the line. It consists of one long and two short syllables, and is shown like this - u u and sounds like dum di diĪ spondee is a long foot. It is one sound, that often has consonants on either side of it.Ī foot is made up of several syllables, and in hexameter there will be six of these in a line.Ī dactyl is the basic form of a foot. When scanning, there are a couple of important terms you need to know:Ī syllable is a vowel or a dipthong. Epic, such as Ovid's metamorphoses or Virgil's Aeneid, are written in hexameter. Latin poems are written in a number of forms.
