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Title: Finding preferred metric patterns in prose using a Markov Chain model


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Finding preferred metric patterns in prose using
a Markov Chain model
  • Andrea Runyan
  • Advisor Dr. Javier Rojo

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Introduction
  • All prose has stressed beats
  • Metric poetry follows a pattern of hard and
  • 31 311 11 1 31 1 3
    1
  • soft syllables.
  • 3 311.

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Introduction
  • Examples of meter schemes
  • 1313131313 . . . iambic pentameter (Shakespeare)
  • 31313131. . . Trochaic tetrameter (One fish, two
    fish, red fish, blue fish)
  • 113113113 . . . anapestic trimeter
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