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SCANSION PRACTICE Using stressed and unstressed accent marks, scan

each example and write the accent mark above its appropriate syllable. WARNING:
Some of these may be irregular, and may not follow a strict unstressed/stressed pattern.
Use discernment. Read them aloud. Experiment. Pencil is ok.

1. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

2. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18)

3. O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fixd
His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! (Shakespeare, Hamlet)

4. For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darlingmy darlingmy life and my bride,

In her sepulchre there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea. (-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee)