For Better For Verse

A University of Virginia tutor for poetic metre: mark the stressed syllables and feet in real poems by Yeats, Donne and others, then check your scansion line by line.

Tonble
Share X Reddit Bluesky Email
Screenshot of prosody.lib.virginia.edu

Stumble onto more like this

One click takes you to a page you didn't know you were looking for. Rate it and the next one lands closer to your taste.

Add to Browser — it's free

Works in Chrome, Edge and Brave. No account needed.