Great great video : Could you make the audio a little louder. Even when I turn the volume fully up, I am unable to hear clearly

Thank you so much for this, very helpful explanation as im studying for an English exam that will include a scansion portion

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This is great. I love to write poems and read poetry, study it ... I wish I could learn more

Something that's really confusing me about English scansion, and coming from a musical background, is that it doesn't seem like conformity to classical Greek meters necessarily creates something all that rhythmic. Example: 1. The jelly master glared at Max and charged a fine. 2. The scarred master glared at Max and charged him a fine. #1 is in perfect iambic hexameter to my understanding: >> the JE lly MAS ter GLARED at MAX and CHARGED a FINE. [6 iambs] #2 seems a bit all over the place. >> the SCARRED MAS ter GLARED at MAX and CHARGED him a FINE. >> [iamb, trochee, trochee, trochee, trochee, iamb?] Yet #2 actually sounds more rhythmic and smoother to my ears given the way I pronounce it. Inserting "him" towards the end of the line seems to alleviate a sort of tension and desire to slow down/pause, and "SCARRED MAS-ter" flows more smoothly to me and seems to better evenly distribute the stressed syllables than "JE-lly MAS-ter". "SCARRED" also seems like it wants to turn into two beats given how long of a syllable it is relative to the ones around it (I take about as long to say "scarred" as I do "jelly", despite the latter being two syllables and the former only one). I want to read it and divide the stress beats somewhat like this: >> the SCARR | rred MAS | ter GLARED | at MAXx | and CHAR | rrged him | a FINE. >> / ðə skɑ | rd ˈmæs | tər glɛrd | æt mæks | ænd ʧɑ | rʤd hɪm | ə ˈfineɪ / This is decomposing the exceptionally long syllables (SCARRED and CHARGED) into two pieces which seems to help me understand the rhythm sometimes. The longer syllables often want to break into two or more sound pieces to my ears to understand their sound relationships with their surrounding sounds and also the relative timing of each sound. Another example: 1. The cat had sat on grass. 2. The cat had sat on a log. #1 sounds more rhythmically tense to my ears even though it perfectly conforms to iambic trimeter. #2 doesn't conform nicely to a syllabic meter yet it seems much more rhythmic to speak aloud. I say #1 like: 1-2: the CAT 3-4: had SAT 5-6: on GRASS [GRASS is off-timed; it's ahead of the 6th beat] ... and #2 like: 1-2: the CAT 3-4: had SAT 5-6: on a LOG [LOG is timed well to the 6th beat] Both are 6 beats (3 stressed beats), but against a steadily-timed metronome, "GRASS" is off-timed with the way I say it. It comes too early, making me want to pause if I want to smooth out the rhythm or if I don't pause, it just sounds off-beat. #2 seems to land "LOG" much more evenly in timing with "CAT" and "SAT". I can appreciate conformity to accentual/stress patterns from my musical background as part of rhythm, but a drummer consistently playing accented beat patterns is not going to sound the slightest bit rhythmic if his timings are all over the place. It seems to me like if we want the timings of accented beats to be reasonably rhythmic, we must factor in the length of the syllables involved and decompose them into smaller sound units.

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I am an Arab girl. I am studying English literature. I have a test tomorrow. Thank you for the explanation. Wish me success🥹

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I love this! I wrote an entire novel (well, it's very short, so maybe novella to some) enrhythming to Wordsworth's The Prelude and I think it did such fun things to my prose that I never would have done without it.

I can't even begin to say how much the Meter Magic Spiral means to me!

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Powerfully, beautifully, written and read. I bow in reverence to the light of your voice.

I write both prosodically and nonprosodically. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the poems I memorise most easily are the ones with a regular heartbeat. Thank you for this video, confirming deep intuitions and adding new light to them.

Very clear explanation--thank you! Love the idea of shouting the line to emphasize the stress!

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Proud to be view 1 like 1 on this, Annie, beautifully done.

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Wonderful to hear a poem in the meter of love. I felt as if I was held in the arms of the Great Mother. Thank you, Annie

Excellent!

The link to your books doesn't have a purchase option. How can I get a copy? Thanks!

Could the sentence { I hear the wands, half-wands and cups} scan as iamb, iamb, trochee and iamb

Could the third line scan as an iamb, a pyrrhic, a spondee, an iamb?

Awesome, thanks for sharing! Eventually it'd be great to implement this kind of knowledge into my poems, that is, once I get the hang of it.

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Very helpful! Thank you.

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Love this! Reminds me of a book I'm reading now, "The Earth Path" by Starhawk. The book tells us readers how to align ourselves with the rhythms of the earth.

Thank you! Succint and powerful words, strong images :)

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