The Affront of Corpes CXXVII
This same Avengalvón the Moor, a gallant man was heHe got straightway on horseback with servitors ten score.He brandished high his weapons, he came the Heirs before.And the two Heirs with what he said but little pleased they are:"If for his sake I forebore not, my lord Cid of Bivár,I would do such deeds upon you as through all the world shouldring,
And then to the true Campeador his daughters would I bring.And unto Carrión never should you enter from that day.
Words in this poem
- straightway adv.
- Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Affront of Corpes CXXVII 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 CXXVII is 9 lines in 2 stanzas. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 79%). 92% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 12.6 syllables. 22% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See 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 -AA---- he · scoreA · beforeA · are · bivár · should · ring
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 |
|---|---|---|
| This same Avengalvón the Moor, a gallant man was he | 14 | ·········/˘··· |
| He got straightway on horseback with servitors ten score. | 13 | ··/˘·/······· |
| He brandished high his weapons, he came the Heirs before. | 14 | ·/˘˘··/˘······ |
| And the two Heirs with what he said but little pleased they are: | 14 | ·········/˘··· |
| "If for his sake I forebore not, my lord Cid of Bivár, | 15 | ··············· |
| I would do such deeds upon you as through all the world should | 14 | ·············· |
| ring, | 1 | · |
| And then to the true Campeador his daughters would I bring. | 14 | ·········/˘··· |
| And unto Carrión never should you enter from that day. | 14 | ·····/˘··/˘··· |
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