The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters C
Hear now of King Alfonso what he said upon this score:"Thanks be to the Creator and the lord Saint IsidoreFor the two hundred horses that the Cid to me hath sent.Yet shall he serve me better in this my government.To Minaya Alvar Fañez and Per Vermudóz I sayThat you forthwith clothe your bodies in honorable array,And as you shall require it of me take battle-gearSuch as before Roy Diaz in good manner shall appear.Take then the gift I give you even these horses three.As it seems to my avisement, as my heart telleth me,Out of all these adventures some good will come to light."
Words in this poem
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
- forthwith adv.
- Immediately; without delay; directly.
- avisement n.
- Advisement; observation; deliberation.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters C 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 Marriage of the Cid's Daughters C is 11 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 91% of the lines. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 72%). 84% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.7 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 27% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
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 AABBCCDDEE- scoreA · isidoreA · sentB · governmentB · sayC · arrayC · gearD · appearD · threeE · meE · light
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hear now of King Alfonso what he said upon this score: | 14 | ·············· |
| "Thanks be to the Creator and the lord Saint Isidore | 14 | ····˘/˘····/˘· |
| For the two hundred horses that the Cid to me hath sent. | 14 | ···/˘/˘······· |
| Yet shall he serve me better in this my government. | 13 | ·····/˘···/˘˘ |
| To Minaya Alvar Fañez and Per Vermudóz I say | 14 | ·············· |
| That you forthwith clothe your bodies in honorable array, | 14 | ··//··/˘·/˘˘˘/ |
| And as you shall require it of me take battle-gear | 14 | ·····/˘····/˘· |
| Such as before Roy Diaz in good manner shall appear. | 14 | ·····/···/˘·˘/ |
| Take then the gift I give you even these horses three. | 13 | ·······/˘·/˘· |
| As it seems to my avisement, as my heart telleth me, | 14 | ·····˘/˘···/˘· |
| Out of all these adventures some good will come to light." | 13 | ····˘/˘······ |
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