>From Charles O. Hartman, Professor of English and Poet in Residence at Conneticut College:
http://cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/COH%20programs%20page.htm """ The Scandroid is a program that scans iambic pentameters. You can load the text file of a poem, or type lines in by hand. As you "Step" through the process, the program explains what it's doing: identifying syllables and lexical stresses, dividing the line into feet and so on. This makes it a self-teaching tool. At the same time, it's suitable for some kinds of research on metrics. Though it uses the traditional foot-based scansion, some of its techniques and principles of construction derive from recent decades' work in generative phonology. There's a Manual that describes both how the program works and why it works that way. """ Sounds like its doing something hard. Written in Python. Haven't tried it yet, but it sure looks interested - maybe most particluarly for some subset of those not buying my geometry based polemics. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
