Mission 8 (Page 46) Look through the internet or old magazines that publish poems. Copy two stanzas with strongly stressed words and mark the stresses on the stanzas. Paste your stanzas on the box below.
The most common method of scanning a poem is to place marks above the syllables to indicate whether they are stressed or unstressed. The mark for a stressed syllable is a slash (“/”) and the mark for an unstressed syllable is a dash (“-”).
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The most common method of scanning a poem is to place marks above the syllables to indicate whether they are stressed or unstressed. The mark for a stressed syllable is a slash (“/”) and the mark for an unstressed syllable is a dash (“-”).