The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters CV
"Of thee, my liege and sovran, a boon do I requestSince thou givest to wed my daughters in what way likes thee best,Choose one my girls to give away, who in thy place shall stand,Since thou hast them, I will never give them o'er with mine ownhand.To the Heirs. Such satisfaction to them shall be denied.""Behold here Alvar Fañez," the King to him replied,"Take them by the hand and give them to the heirs, even as IHere afar off have ta ten them, as though I were hard by;And throughout all the vigil their sponsor shalt thou be.When again to me thou comest tell all the truth to me."
Words in this poem
- liege a.
- Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord. [OE. lige, lege, F. lige, LL. ligius, legius, liege, unlimited, complete, prob. of German origin; cf. G. ledig free from bonds and obstacles, MHG. ledec, ledic, ]
- sovran a.
- A variant of Sovereign.
- boon n.
- A prayer or petition. [OE. bone, boin, a petition, fr. Icel. b; akin to Sw. & Dan. b, AS. b, and perh. to E. ban; but influenced by F. bon good, fr. L. bonus. Ban, Bounty.]
- 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,]
- hast
- , 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Fave, contr. of havest.
- afar adv.
- At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. [Pref. a-.(for on or of) + far.]
- vigil n.
- Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. [OE. vigile, L. vigilia, from vigil awake, watchful, probably akin to E. wake: cf. F. vigile. See Wake, v. i., and cf. Reveille, Surveillance, Vedette, Vegetable]
- shalt
- 2d per. sing. of Shall.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters CV 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 CV is 11 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 55% of the lines. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 73%). 83% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 12.6 syllables. 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 AAB-BCCDDEE requestA · bestA · standB · own · handB · deniedC · repliedC · iD · byD · beE · meE
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 |
|---|---|---|
| "Of thee, my liege and sovran, a boon do I request | 13 | ·····/˘····˘/ |
| Since thou givest to wed my daughters in what way likes thee best, | 15 | ·······/˘······ |
| Choose one my girls to give away, who in thy place shall stand, | 14 | ······˘/······ |
| Since thou hast them, I will never give them o'er with mine own | 14 | ······/˘······ |
| hand. | 1 | · |
| To the Heirs. Such satisfaction to them shall be denied." | 14 | ·····˘/˘····˘/ |
| "Behold here Alvar Fañez," the King to him replied, | 13 | ˘/·········˘/ |
| "Take them by the hand and give them to the heirs, even as I | 14 | ···········/·· |
| Here afar off have ta ten them, as though I were hard by; | 14 | ·˘/··········· |
| And throughout all the vigil their sponsor shalt thou be. | 13 | ·····/˘·/˘··· |
| When again to me thou comest tell all the truth to me." | 14 | ·˘/··········· |
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