A hands-on Homeric hexameter workbench: quantity-tagged Zeus names and epithets, six-foot slot boards with live scansion, Iliad/Odyssey exemplar pins, and timed drills—seeded offline for seminar prep, not empty theory screens.
Offline verse studio
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Each cell is a concrete loop in the hexameter studio—not abstract theory cards.
Place name, epithet, and filler chips into feet 1–6, toggle dactyl/spondee intent, mark masculine or feminine caesura, and watch color-layered quantities flag illegal stacks, hiatus, and missed elision.
Open Invocation, Storm Simile, Divine Rebuke, Assembly Address, or Messenger Charge templates—each preloads tone tags, suggested caesura, and a sample foot pattern so composition starts mid-thought.
Browse 50+ seeded name forms and epithets with long/short maps, Ionic-epic notes, and quick-add chips. Filter by metrical shape, storm/sovereignty/kinship domain, and frequency band.
Pin your line beside seeded Iliad/Odyssey loci (book.line, public-domain Greek + literal gloss) that share the same Zeus formula or type-scene job; highlight overlapping slots and diction.
Score Metrical Legality, Formulaic Fit, Caesura Craft, and Job Alignment with plain-language rationales tied to seeded rule cards—then lock a verdict before the verse card saves.
Timed rounds for Illegal Combo, Fifth Foot, Name-the-Caesura, and Restore the Epithet, each deep-linking back to the composer. Save, reorder, and share cards as text or PNG.
BoltHex Verse Kit turns scattered epithet lists and abstract dactylic-hexameter rules into a concrete on-device verse studio for Homeric Greek students, classics undergrads, AP/college instructors, and epic-translation workshops. Pick a verse job—Invocation Opening, Storm Simile, Divine Rebuke, Assembly Address, or Messenger Charge—then drop Kroníōn, aigíokhos, terpikéraunos and kin into feet 1–6 with long/short maps, caesura marks, and optional tap-tempo ticks.
A live engine flags illegal stacks, hiatus, missed elision or correption, and broken bucolic diaeresis; fidelity scores Metrical Legality, Formulaic Fit, Caesura Craft, and Job Alignment against seeded rule cards and real loci. Save titled verse cards, run Restore-the-Epithet drills, and walk into close-reading with reusable, metrically honest Zeus lines—no subscription, no blank catalog, fully populated on first launch.
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