Tutorials on meter and scanning

• Basic information about meter
  • Rhythm, meter, and scansion made easy
  • Iambic pentameter
  • Ling 103 notes
  • Meter in English verse - fairly exhaustive introduction, probably unnecesarily detailed for our purposes

• Help with scanning
  • Ling 103 notes on scanning Chaucer - best discussion for our purposes (particularly relevant are pp. 3-4, 6-9)
  • Ling 103 notes on scanning Shakespeare
  • Scansion guide - The down and dirty guide to scanning verse - assumes nothing and gets you very far