Digital Humanities
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Author: Simone

MLIS student at Pratt. Avid philatelist and lover of all things collecting. Her heroes are Tammy Faye Bakker née Messner and Bill Ayers.

Beyond Scansion: Exploring Holistic Prosody Analysis through Digital Humanities Tools

Prosody, the subtle art of sound and rhythm in language, plays a central role in the experience of poetry. It imparts musicality, emotional resonance, and layers of meaning to verses. Traditional prosody analysis focuses on scansion, which parses metrical patterns and stressed syllables in a text format, but often overlooks the nuanced musicality unique to poetry. In the digital age,…