Words inside verses were carefully selected to conform to the above standards. This project is a labor of love, but if you want to, you can support it on Patreon. Interface and audio timing is still a work in progress. That is in which positions of the verse long syllables are located, in which positions are short, and how these syllables form the fixed scheme of every section of the verse. A Reading of Homer (work in progress) Audio and text annotations licensed as CC-BY, © 2016, 2017 by David Chamberlain. The term ‘scansion’ denotes the discovery of the particular pattern of the metrical system of the verse. The aim of this project was the development of a program that will automatically scan such a verse, by using the least possible computing and linguistic resources. Each section has a fixed scheme, thus it can have only two or three syllables in a predefined combination. Dactyls often appears in Greek and Latin verse. This system is named ‘hexameter’, because the verse is divided into six sections, and so is the rhythm of reciting it. Dactylic meter is used in moments that are more powerful and forceful than the breezier anapest.The word dactyl originates from the Greek word dáktylos, meaning finger.This is in reference to the short and long bones of the human finger. For example, (> ) for the contracted Attic (9.108). Words that are normally contracted in Attic are frequently uncontracted in Homer. Two of the longest and most famous poems of Ancient Greek poetry, namely Iliad and Odyssey, were composed in the hexameter by Homer. is also used in Homer, most frequently in negative sentences after or (Smyth 1763, Monro 362, Palmer 178). Classical Ancient Greek poetry demonstrates a wide variety of metrical systems, the most ancient one being the hexameter.
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Computerized Scansion of Ancient Greek Hexameter Computerized Scansion of Ancient Greek HexameterĪ metrical system is the particular rhythm upon which a verse is structured.