Scansion Rules, Guides and Techniques

Basic procedures to follow to scan a line of dactylic hexameter and a sample line from The Aeneid with elision.

Prosody is the systematic study of poetic meter.

Terms used in discussions of metrics and notations for stressed and unstressed syllables in the study of Greek and Latin poetry.

Dochmiac is a meter for scanning Greek tragedy.

Trochaic Trimeter was a meter chanted with an aulos accompaniment to suggest agitation.

A specific meter in pairs of lines was used by poets and is known as an elegiac couplet.

A quick reference guide for a high-school class.

Explanation of the use of quantitative meter in Latin poetry.