Scansion tab

Scansion marks each syllable of a line as long or short and groups the syllables into feet, each a dactyl (¯ ˘ ˘) or a spondee (¯ ¯). Every word in the corpus carries its own metrical record: its syllable shape and the feet it occupies in the line. All of the views here are computed from that record.

• Pick one view at a time from the drop-down: individual lines word by word, the commonest foot patterns, the dactyl/spondee balance by position, where a word or grammatical category falls in the verse, the commonest words at each foot, and the length profiles. The word box accepts Greek or English and suggests matching forms as you type.
• Limit the scope to the Iliad, the Odyssey, or a single book before running.