If you want to run the macronizer locally, or develop it further,Ĭopyright 2015-2021 Johan Winge. Im stuck with the scansion of the second of the following lines I read in Euripides Bacchae : 442. This tool was the subject of my bachelor’s thesis in Language Version of the Morpheus morphological analyzer. The macronization is performed using a part-of-speech taggerĭependency Treebank, and with macrons provided by a customized The expected accuracy on an average classical text isĮstimated to be about 98% to 99%. This automatic macronizer lets you quickly mark all the long vowels ('Example' is a three-syllable word thats a two-syllable rhyme with 'ample' and a one-syllable rhyme with 'steeple'. up on) the primary tools for diving deeply into his work, and then bringing it to life. The only database of hexameter scansion I’m aware of is Martin Mueller’s, which is tucked away inside WordHoard. Essay Sample: 1 Foot monometer 2 Feet dimeter 3 Feet trimeter 4 Feet tetrameter 5 Feet pentameter 6 Feet hexameter 7 Feet heptameter 8 Feet octameter iamb.

Maintenance and continuous development! Any amount is very much While I dont know of any straight dictionaries that organize words by number of syllables, many rhyming dictionaries will organize rhymes by how many syllables they contain, or by how many syllables rhyme. Scansion: Breaking Down Shakespeares Words with Lauren Hanover. For adding the scansion annotations, I made some use of Mindaugas Strockis and Marius Tverijonas’ online scansion tool. Time-saving, please consider making a donation, to support

If you use the macronizer regularly and find it helpful and When tested on a couple of books of theĪeneid (from the eminent Dickinson CollegeĬommentaries), this has been demonstrated to cut the number ofĮrroneous vowel lengths in half! Currently, dactylic hexametersĪnd elegiac distichs are supported other meters may be added.Īlso, I have now added a PayPal donation button: July 2016: I am happy to announce that the Macronizer now isĪble to take the meter into account when guessing the vowel October 2016: The performance on texts written in all uppercase letters has been greatly improved. May 2017: I have now made the macronized text editable, which means that it will now be much easier to correct typos or misspellings while proofreading the text. If youre struggling to scan a hexameter or pentameter, you could try typing the verse into METRON, an online scansion tool It might not be 100 accurate. G.L., Basic guide to Latin Meter and Scansion, (a handy reference sheet for. Students can do any of the first 209 lines of the Aeneid.The practice can also be accessed here online for students without a smart phone. Facciolati and Forcinelli, 1828: Totius Latinitatis Lexicon (The. Ĭompare result with correctly macronized input text.Īugust 2017: More meters added! The macronizer can now handle hendecasyllables as well as distichs of iambic trimeters and dimeters ( Beātus ille quī procul negōtiīs.). The Latin Scansion app, by the Pericles group, is a great way for students to learn about scansion.Students can just touch long and shorts, and they are corrected immediately. To improve the result, try to scan the text as. Note: In order to avoid time out from the server, input longer than 50000 characters will be truncated.

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