Scansion Test

[milo]

Here is a scansion test from my old friend Colin Ward:

http://www.firesides.ca/scansion6.htm

There is actually a trick in it which I didn't realize at first.

Have fun.

[billy]

i saw an acrostic but to be honest most of it was beyond me.

[tomoffing]

Here is a scansion test from my old friend Colin Ward:

http://www.firesides.ca/scansion6.htm

There is actually a trick in it which I didn't realize at first.

Have fun.

This is brilliant Milo,
Thanks a lot.

[ellajam]

I haven't been through the whole thing yet (I keep linking backwards ), but thanks, milo.

[clemonz]

i'm not getting the test - why is there a button for "accentual"?

i'll probably take the test soon - the last couple of nights i have dreamt / fallen to sleep day dreaming about scansion hahah.

[ChristopherSea]

I may have failed the scansion test! Although I have found a previous post on Collin Ward's poetry tips very informative, this particular lesson will take some closer study to fully grasp.

[newsclippings]

I did surprisingly well on the beginner one (thank you high school English teachers). Didn't even try the expert.

[Truerenigma]

I love how there was an option "prose with line breaks". Almost all them, I felt, were prose with line break. With the exception of an iambic poem almost completely devoid of line breaks.

[milo]

I love how there was an option "prose with line breaks". Almost all them, I felt, were prose with line break. With the exception of an iambic poem almost completely devoid of line breaks.

I don't know which test you got but mine included some of the best poems I have read in a while.

[Truerenigma]

I love how there was an option "prose with line breaks". Almost all them, I felt, were prose with line break. With the exception of an iambic poem almost completely devoid of line breaks.

I don't know which test you got but mine included some of the best poems I have read in a while.

Some good poems on mine too, yeah. I just think the prose option (with line breaks) is funny. And how do you decide if it's free verse or prose?

I did very well, but read their bit and answered according to their guidelines. If it wasn't a test with highly subjective material I might have answered differently.

I was extremely pleased to find the "online workshopper" score above the MFA and PHD scores.

It was clearly done by someone from one of those google groups that popped up after usenet crashed.