Scansion helps you create works of verse. (Note that the 17+ age rating is due to the application providing configurable bookmarks for web access and NOT because of any provided content.)
Whether for poetry or song lyrics, words written in traditional verse, using the English language, are line-oriented and have patterns of strong and weak emphasis on their syllables. These patterns are known as metrical units or feet; the use and recognition of them is called scansion. As a program, Scansion provides support for that by allowing you to create and modify feet, associate them with lines of verse, save them as templates, and re-use them within the same piece of work or future ones.
You can produce works of verse by creating new lines and adding or modifying the annotations, but Scansions real strength comes from being able to associate a template with each verse item. When used that way, new lines acquire their annotation from the template, showing you the expected pattern of feet and helping keep the meter regular from one stanza to the next. At the same time, you can change individual lines while maintaining the underlying pattern.
To assist with writing verse, Scansion has three buttons configured to reference an on-line standard Dictionary, Thesaurus, and a dictionary of Rhymes. The ones supplied may be replaced using the iPads Settings application.
Specific features:
- Either verse or templates may be used to create the other, allowing for versatility in how you work.
- Templates may be customized before or after use.
- Layout of accents for lines may be manual or automatic, depending on your preferences for entry.
- Works of verse may be exported as text -- with or without annotations -- or shared using email.
- Work is automatically saved when Scansion moves to the background.