Seven diagrammed meter templates
Hexameter, elegiac couplet, Phalaecian hendecasyllable, Sapphic, Alcaic, iambic trimeter, and trochaic septenarius—each with foot shapes, substitutions, and caesura zones before you type a syllable.
Latin · Ancient Greek · Scansion Desk
VerseMark Meter Desk
Scan Latin and ancient Greek aloud at a real prosody desk—pick a meter, tap quantities, watch feet light up, and drill famous lines offline before the exam.
7Fully diagrammed meters
45+Seed corpus teaching lines
100%On-device scansion & shelf
iOSWidgets, Intents, share sheet
Illustrative marketing figures; not App Store metrics.
A scholarly desk, not another flashcard stack
Folio I · AboutVerseMark Meter Desk turns classical scansion from pencil scratches on photocopies into a live workbench. Classics students, Latin teachers, tutors, and self-learners choose a diagrammed meter template, enter a line, and mark long, short, anceps, or elided syllables with one tap while a foot-map compares every mark to the expected pattern.
Study seeded quantity rules, reveal expert answers on Aeneid and Homeric openers only after you commit, run timed accuracy drills, and pin tough lines to My Passages—all in local storage with a marble-and-gold tome aesthetic built for reading verse, not scrolling flashcards.
Pages from the workbench
Folio II · Gallery
Instruments on the marble desk
Folio III · FeaturesLive Scansion Workspace
Paste Latin or Greek, auto-split syllables, cycle quantity marks, and see matched vs mismatched feet color instantly, with missing caesura regions flagged against your chosen template.
Elision Assistant
Spot adjacent vowel collisions, apply or undo elision and prodelision in one tap, and watch the foot count reflow without leaving the line you are marking.
Rules shelf + 45+ corpus lines
Natural longs, diphthongs, length by position, mute+liquid exceptions, and Greek cues—paired with famous openers from Vergil, Homer, Catullus, Horace, and more in hide/reveal Try-myself-first mode.
Drills, My Passages, exports
Timed or untimed foot-accuracy rounds, star lines onto a tagged local shelf, duplicate fresh attempts, and share annotated PNG or PDF handouts for class or study group.
Widgets & offline Intents
Meter Tip and Daily Practice Line widgets, plus Siri/Spotlight actions like Start hexameter drill—no network, SwiftData persistence, marble themes, and large-type exam mode.
How a line moves across the desk
Folio IV · Method
Step I
Choose the meter
Open a diagrammed template—foot shapes, allowed substitutions, and caesura zones sit beside the line before any mark is made.
Step II
Tap the quantities
Enter the verse, split syllables, mark long, short, anceps, or elided, and watch the live foot-map answer in color.
Step III
Drill, pin, export
Commit before reveal on corpus openers, run accuracy rounds, shelf tough passages locally, and share annotated handouts.
Read the meter before the exam bell.
Keep scansion, rules, drills, and My Passages fully on-device—calm marble, gold rules, no cloud required for the work itself.