In which I recite part of the Bucolics.

[conuly]

I won't bother transcribing this, but if you're interested in a translation you can read the link.

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[conuly]

Oh god. I can never get my scansion right. But the meter has to do with long and short syllables, not with stress.

[sailoreagle.livejournal.com]

Right... though when reading out loud we actually stressed syllables to match the metric. (I dunno if that's the correct thing to do, the teacher told us to read like that and so we did. Heh.)

TItyre, TU patuLAE recuBANS sub TEGmine FAgi
SILvesTREM tenuI musAM mediTAris aVEna
etc

If I remember it correctly, which I probably don't. Been years since I last seriously studied Latin. Though our teacher was obsessed with metric and verb paradigms and declensions and so on, so a lot of it is still stuck in my brain. (Most irritatingly, some fragments of some poems by Catullus, metric and all - but not the whole thing. Aaaaargh!)