Classical prosody · Offline workbench
VerseMark Meter Desk
Scan Latin and ancient Greek verse at a real desk—not a static chart. Pick a meter, mark quantities with one tap, and watch feet light up match or miss before the exam.
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II · The brief
A scholarly desk for quantity, feet, and voice
VerseMark Meter Desk is the offline prosody workbench classics students, Latin teachers, and self-learners open when photocopies and scattered PDFs stop helping. Choose from seven fully diagrammed meters, type a line, and cycle each syllable through long, short, anceps, or elided.
A live foot-map compares your marks to the template, flags caesura gaps, and reflows when you apply elision. Study quantity rules with worked examples, hide-and-reveal expert scansions on 45+ famous openers from Vergil to Horace to Homer, run timed or untimed accuracy drills, and pin lines to My Passages for class tomorrow—all in local SwiftData with a marble-and-gold tome aesthetic built for reading aloud and serious prep.
III · Instruments on the desk
Everything you mark stays under your hand
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Seven diagrammed meter templates
Hexameter, elegiac couplet, Phalaecian hendecasyllable, Sapphic, Alcaic, iambic trimeter, and trochaic septenarius—each with foot shapes, common substitutions, and caesura zones before you type a word.
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Live foot-map scansion workspace
Paste a Latin or Greek line, auto-split syllables, tap to set quantity. Matched and mismatched feet color instantly; missing caesura regions stay flagged until you fix them.
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Elision Assistant that reflows feet
Spot adjacent vowel collisions, apply or undo elision and prodelision in one tap, and see the foot count update without leaving the line you are marking.
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Seed corpus with try-first answers
Forty-five-plus openers and teaching lines from the Aeneid, Iliad, Catullus, Horace, and more—expert scansion hidden until you commit, plus brief difficulty notes.
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Drills, My Passages, classroom export
Timed or untimed foot-accuracy rounds, star lines onto a tagged shelf, duplicate fresh attempts, and share annotated PNG or multi-line PDF handouts via the system sheet.
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Widgets and Siri without the cloud
Meter Tip and Daily Practice Line widgets, plus App Intents for hexameter drills and random corpus lines—Spotlight and Siri stay local, same as every mark you save.
IV · Folio plates
From template to marked line
V · Method
Three quiet steps before you read aloud
Open a diagrammed template—hexameter through trochaic septenarius—and review feet, substitutions, and caesura zones.
Enter Latin or Greek, tap syllables for long, short, anceps, or elided, and let the foot-map light match or miss.
Check against model scansions, run accuracy rounds, and pin tomorrow’s passages to your local shelf.
Keep the tome on your desk
VerseMark Meter Desk is built for classics students, Latin teachers, humanities tutors, and self-learners who want quantity work without accounts or cloud detours.
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