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
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• 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