PART-2 SOLUTION TO THE PROSODY QUESTIONS OF MY YOUTUBE VIDEO ON "HOW TO SOLVE PROSODY"

                Anapaestic and Iambic tetrameter are used here while the first and third lines are Hypermetrical. 

            Trochaic tetrameter and pentameter are used alternately. The last feet of the second and last lines are catalectic.

             The above lines are written in Trochaic trimeter with the exception of the last line which is an Alexandrine (i.e. Iambic hexameter). The last foot of each of the second and fourth lines are Catalectic.

               Iambic tetrameter and trimeter are used alternately. There is Anapaestic substitution in the second foot each of the second and third lines. The third foot of the first line is a spondee.

              Iambic tetrameter and trimeter are used alternately. The second and last lines are hypermetrical.

              Iambic pentameter is used here with the following variations: the first feet of the second and third lines are trochaic and anapaestic respectively. The first line is hypermetrical. 

PART-1 SOLUTION TO THE PROSODY QUESTIONS OF MY YOUTUBE VIDEO ON "HOW TO SOLVE PROSODY"

                   The predominant meter used in the above extract is Iambic pentameter. The second foot of the first line, the fourth foot of the second line and the second foot of the last line are Trochaic. The fourth foot of the first line, third of the second and fourth of the last are Pyrrhic while the last foot each of the first and second lines and the first foot of the last line are Spondee.

            Iambic pentameter is used here with the following variations. The first line is Iambic trimeter. The second line is Iambic tetrameter. The first foot of the fourth line is Trochaic. The third foot of the third line is Pyrrhic. The fourth foot of the third line is Spondee. There is Elision in the first syllable of the last line.

                 Iambic pentameter is used here with the following variations. The first foot of the first line is trochaic. the fourth foot of the last line is Spondee.

                 

                 Iambic tetrameter is used here with the following variations. The first foot of the first, second, and third lines are Acephalous.

                   Anapaestic and Iambic trimeters are combined. The first foot of the second line, the second foot each of the third and fourth lines are Anapaestic and the rest are Iambic. The third line is Hyper-metrical. The first three heavily accented monosyllables of the first line from three separate feet.

            Iambic tetrameter and trimeter are used alternately. The first feet of the first and third lines are Acephalous.

HOW TO SOLVE PROSODY

  The formula SADIV will help the beginners to remember all the stages of scansion. The significance of each capital letter is given below:

First stage -- S : Syllabification i.e., division of words into syllables.
Second stage-- A: Accentuation i.e. placing of accents over certain syllables.
Third stage-- D: Division into feet i.e. placing of a vertical line against each foot.
Fourth stage-- I: Identification of meter through nature and number of feet.
Last stage-- V: Variation (if any) and their treatment.

   The first stage is syllabic division. The second stage is putting of accent marks on important syllables. Mark that the verbs and the nouns are accented; other unimportant syllables such as like, in and thy are also accented because of metrical reason and of their positions in the lines. The third stage is the division of each line into a number of feet. As the total number of syllables in each line is twice or about twice the total number of its accents, the feet are undoubtedly disyllabic. Hence we divide the lines into a number of feet by putting vertical lines after every two syllables. The fourth stage is the identification of the meter through the nature and number of feet employed in the lines. So far as the first four lines are concerned we observe that there is falling rhythm ( accented beginning and unaccented ends) in the normal lines. This helps us to take the feet as trochaic. When we pay our attention to each single foot, we find that it has an accented syllable followed by an unaccented one. This also convinces us that the feet are trochaic. In the last foot we observe that the rising rhythm (unaccented beginning and accented end) has been used, and each single foot has an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one. Both these assure us that the feet are iambic. Now we shall have to decide the prosodic name. As in cases of verses composed irregularly of different meters, their prosodic name is determined according to the nature of the majority of the feet employed in them, we may say that the prosodic name here is trochaic trimeter. in the last stage we are to find out variations, if any. We observe that there are two variations at the end of the second line and the fourth. Since there is an accented syllable at the end of each of these lines, so the last foot of each is catalectic. Now we can write like the following: The first four lines are trochaic trimeter. The last foot of the second and fourth lines is catalectic. The last line is iambic hexameter.