The Affront of Corpes CXLII
To Per Vermudóz Roy Diaz my lord the Cid looked now:"Speak then, good Pero Mudo, though a silent man art thou.The ladies are my daughters, thy cousins twain are they.Into thy teeth they cast it, when such a thing they say.Thou shalt not do this battle, if I the answer make.
Words in this poem
- twain a.
- Two;- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. [OE. twein, tweien, tweyne, AS. twegen, masc. See Two.]
- shalt
- 2d per. sing. of Shall.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Affront of Corpes CXLII is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Lay of the Cid, Project Gutenberg ebook #6088, the R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
The Affront of Corpes CXLII is 5 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 80% of the lines. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic heptameter. 83% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.4 syllables.
See other poems in rhyming couplets, other poems in iambic heptameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 AABB- nowA · thouA · theyB · sayB · make
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic heptameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| To Per Vermudóz Roy Diaz my lord the Cid looked now: | 14 | ······/······· |
| "Speak then, good Pero Mudo, though a silent man art thou. | 14 | ···/˘····/˘··· |
| The ladies are my daughters, thy cousins twain are they. | 13 | ·/˘··/˘·/˘··· |
| Into thy teeth they cast it, when such a thing they say. | 13 | ············· |
| Thou shalt not do this battle, if I the answer make. | 13 | ·····/˘···/˘· |
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