Consistency may not be necessary, but there may be some patterns to be discovered here. The more I read, the less I pronounced them, but a few still seemed necessary. I’m inconsistent on digamma pronunciation.
I’m probably also letting the stress accent come through too much.
Metamorphoses scansion first 9 lines full#
I have no plans to go full Daitz on this. I’m getting better at the pitch accent (I think), but it would be good to do some more work on it before restarting.It still seems to me that Homer’s audience would have appreciated a little variety of pace, so I’ll see if I can revisit that. I abandoned this quickly for the sake of simplicity, and because I wasn’t happy with the way I was doing it.
with a few early books of the Iliad I experimented with varying the pace of reading.Before I move on to the Odyssey, however, I need to meditate on some slightly less basic things, do a few experiments, and see if I can produce something a bit more sophisticated. a tolerable effort at reconstructed pronunciation (to the extent that it exists for Homeric Greek) with a very conservative pitch accent, and with my instinctive stress accent restrained to the best of my ability.a recognizable, consistent hexameter rhythm.Accordingly I’ve tried to follow only a couple of very basic requirements: The aim so far has been to produce, in a reasonable time period, a free, accessible, spoken version, with moderately good audio quality and linked to a metrically tagged text. Send us feedback about these examples.These are also posted to in various downloadable formats. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'metamorphose.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 7 June 2022 After breeding, the adults move upland again, leaving their eggs to hatch into larvae, who metamorphose either quickly or slowly depending on the speed at which their pool is drying up. Manvir Singh, Wired, 14 July 2022 His obsessive way of covering every surface with his glyphs, transforming them into something else, is actually very similar to my obsession to metamorphose, to modify and mutate. 2021 Founders have to convince investors that, with time and dollars, their companies will metamorphose into fat, pearly unicorns. Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022 Some became the largest animals on land while others can metamorphose through several stages during their lives.
Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023 Until recently these hatchling larvae would metamorphose, first into pupae and then into their six-legged, winged adult phase.
2023 Across two decades, the working group metamorphosed from an overwhelmingly American assemblage into an international one. 2023 In 2006, a decade after The Score catapulted him from the basement of Jean’s mother-in-law’s house in Newark to homes in Beverly Hills and Manhattan, Pras the rapper metamorphosed into Pras the documentary filmmaker. Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. Recent Examples on the Web Alternatively, fossils sometimes appear in slabs of stone that are in the middle of metamorphosing.
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