4/19/2023 0 Comments Hendecasyllabic scansionIn addition to building a library to do this, a web interface should present the result in an easily digestible way, detailing also how the system arrived at its result, in order to help learners of Latin better understand the process. The attempt of this work, was to conceive of a system to automatically determine the quantities of a line’s syllables (a process called scanning) without overly focusing on one specific meter. For this reason, when automatic processing of Latin metrics is attempted, other meters are often overlooked in favor of the hexameter. The hexameter is by far the most frequent one and is used primarily in the epos such as Virgil’s Aeneid and in didactic poetry such as Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things. There are about a dozen different meters that are frequently used in Latin verse and some more that occur less frequently. In contrast, Ancient Greek and Latin metrics was governed by a quantitative principle meaning that long syllables are considered marked and short syllables are considered unmarked. Most poetry in the Germanic languages is bound by accentuating (or qualitative) metrics, which means that accented syllables (as the determined by either loudness or pitch) are considered marked and non-accented syllables are considered unmarked. constraints that concern the rhythmic structure of the text in question: Each line of verse has to take a certain sequence of marked and unmarked syllables. This piece of work, however, focuses on metric constraints, i. These constraints can take various forms: For example, they can concern rhyme patterns or the way a text is laid out on paper. speech bound by constraints on the form instead of the content. One defining aspect of most poetry in opposition to prose is that poetry is “bound speech”, i.e. We provide a tool for measuring Latin verse, as well as a web application highlighting results and providing helpful annotation of phenomena that lead to this classification. Simon Will, Victor Zimmermann & Christoph Schaller
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