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    The document provides key terms and scansion symbols to analyze the meter of Shakespearean verse. It then presents ten lines from Act III, Scene 1 of The Tempest and asks the reader to scan each line using iambic pentameter, identify the speaker of each set of lines, and note the stressed and unstressed syllables.

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    The document provides key terms and scansion symbols to analyze the meter of Shakespearean verse. It then presents ten lines from Act III, Scene 1 of The Tempest and asks the reader to scan each line using iambic pentameter, identify the speaker of each set of lines, and note the stressed and unstressed syllables.

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    The document provides key terms and scansion symbols to analyze the meter of Shakespearean verse. It then presents ten lines from Act III, Scene 1 of The Tempest and asks the reader to scan each line using iambic pentameter, identify the speaker of each set of lines, and note the stressed and unstressed syllables.

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    Name_________________________________

    Scanning Key Terms

    The Tempest scansion


    the analysis of verse to show its
    meter

    meter
    Instructions: After reviewing the key terms and scansion symbols
    the rhythmic pattern of stressed and
    provided, scan each set of lines below from Act III, Scene 1, and indicate unstressed syllables in verse
    the speaker.
    Each line should have 5 stressed syllables and 5 metrical feet (iambic iambic pentameter
    pentameter). a line of verse with 5 metrical feet,
    each with one unstressed syllable
    Tip: When reading verse aloud, changing the pace to read faster or slower can
    followed by one stressed syllable.
    sometimes help the rhythm stand out more clearly.
    (da-DUM)
    Scansion Symbols feet
    symbol function Small groups of stressed and
    / To mark the stressed syllable in each foot unstressed syllables

    | To divide the feet in each line

    / / / / /
    1. Work not | so hard. | I would | the light | ning had

    2. Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin’d to pile!

    3. Pray set it down, and rest you. When this burns

    Speaker: __________________

    4. O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound


    5. And crown what I profess with kind event

    Speaker: ____________________

    6. And all the more it seeks to hide itself,

    7. The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning,

    8. And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

    Speaker: ____________________

    9. So glad of this as they I cannot be,

    10. Who are surpris’d withal; but my rejoicing

    Speaker: ____________________

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