The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters CIX
Forthwith a-kissing of his hands his wife and daughters fell,And likewise all the ladies their pleasure still that did."Thanks be to the Creator and to thee, fair-bearded Cid,What thing thou cost soever, it is well done indeed.In all thy days thy daughters shall never be in need."
Words in this poem
- forthwith adv.
- Immediately; without delay; directly.
- 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,]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters CIX 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.
Cite as: Anonymous, The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters CIX, in The Lay of the Cid (1919), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #6088, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/lay-of-the-cid/the-marriage-of-the-cid-s-daughters-cix.html, id L15114.
Form and metre
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters CIX 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. 71% 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 fell · didA · cidA · indeedB · needB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Forthwith a-kissing of his hands his wife and daughters fell, | 14 | //·/˘······/˘· |
| And likewise all the ladies their pleasure still that did. | 13 | ·/···/˘·/˘··· |
| "Thanks be to the Creator and to thee, fair-bearded Cid, | 14 | ····˘/˘····/˘· |
| What thing thou cost soever, it is well done indeed. | 13 | ····˘/˘····˘/ |
| In all thy days thy daughters shall never be in need." | 13 | ·····/˘·/˘··· |
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