So it goes long long long short short long short long short long long. This is what Orberg says: spondee/dactyl/trochee (long short)/trochee/trochee or spondee. However, the meter just confuses me because it sounds like a tap dance. I understand that there are 11 syllables and that it is a 'fixed form'. Spondees are not admitted into the second set of 2.5 feet. So you could have dactyl/spondee/LONG, then a pause, then dactyl/dactyl/LONG. This means that the 0.5 foot must be a long syllable. The last foot of a hexameter is often a spondee. Hexameter has 6 feet and is made up of dactyls (long short short) and spondees (long long). I understand three meters so far: Hendecasyllabic, hexameter, and pentameter. I understand that syllables can elide into one another when the next syllable starts with a vowel/h. puella in the ablative singular has a long 'a')
I understand that long syllables are those which end in a consonant, or in a long vowels (eg. I understand that short syllables are those which end in short vowels. I'll just list the things I understand, and those which I do not. Also I think it's really cool that some people can scan through a whole poem mentally and I'd like to get to that stage. I'd like to study this more at home so that I can appreciate poetry better. I'm currently going through scansion for the first time with my teacher and it is just confusing me.
In order to get more responses I will write this post in English.
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