Comments on: Is there an online tool that would do scansion for me?

Question: Is there an online tool that would do scansion for me?

Carillon — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:59:29 -0800

Is there an online tool that would give me the metrical foot of a sentence I type in?

For instance, were I to type in
" Should you ask me, whence these stories?/ Whence these legends and traditions,"

from Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, is there anything tool that would return either:

¯ ˘ ¯ ˘ ¯ ˘ ¯ ˘/ ¯ ˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ ˘ ¯ ˘

or

Should you ask me, whence these stories?
Whence these legends and traditions,

I am writing a set of my own poems, but I have a very hard time trying to write in a trochaic verse. I am always second guessing myself etc. plus I would love to check certain words out and see where they fall.

By: aeschenkarnos

aeschenkarnos — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:20:11 -0800

Try this, Speechlab from Synthetic Reality. It's intended to do text-to-speech, but it does so by doing text-to-phonetics, then phonetics-to-speech. Since it shows the intermediate step, it may incidentally do what you want it to do.

(And incidentally, maybe something I want to do. I've been looking for a glossollalia generator for some time. Thank you for (possibly) helping me find one.)

By: rhizome

rhizome — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:25:46 -0800

You might want to contact this person if you can't find anything.

By: sentient

sentient — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:55:01 -0800

What about Rhyme & Reason?

According to the FAQ it includes "...metrical scanning tools for identifying meter and rhyme scheme."