Scansions

 

2. Complete a scansion on 3 lines of the poem. (Identify line length and meter--like the example from "Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day). 

   ‘        u         ‘        u        u    ‘     u     ‘    u ‘

Bare  hills, / cold  silver / on  a / sky  of / slate

 

 

    U     ‘      u    ‘               ‘    u      u   ‘      ‘   u               

Down to/ the Pur/itan/ Marrow/ of my/ bones

 

       u         ‘               u            ‘        ‘      u     ‘      u              u   ‘                

That spring/, briefer than/ apple / blossom's/ breath