The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXIX
His renown afar is spreading. Beyond the sea it sped.Glad were the companies the Cid a glad man was heThat God had given him succor and gained that victory.And they sent forth their harriers. By night they marched away,They reached unto Culléra, and to Játiva came they.And ever downward even to Dénia town they bore.And all the Moorish country by the sea he wasted sore.Peñacadéll, outgoing and entrance, have they ta'en.
Words in this poem
- 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.]
- outgoing n.
- The act or the state of going out.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXIX 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 LXIX is 8 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 50% of the lines. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 77%). 85% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.6 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 12% 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 ---AABB- sped · he · victory · awayA · theyA · boreB · soreB · ta'en
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 |
|---|---|---|
| His renown afar is spreading. Beyond the sea it sped. | 14 | ·˘/˘/·/˘······ |
| Glad were the companies the Cid a glad man was he | 13 | ···/˘˘······· |
| That God had given him succor and gained that victory. | 14 | ···/˘·/˘···/˘˘ |
| And they sent forth their harriers. By night they marched away, | 14 | ·····/˘˘····˘/ |
| They reached unto Culléra, and to Játiva came they. | 14 | ·············· |
| And ever downward even to Dénia town they bore. | 13 | ·/˘/˘/˘······ |
| And all the Moorish country by the sea he wasted sore. | 14 | ···/˘/˘····/˘· |
| Peñacadéll, outgoing and entrance, have they ta'en. | 13 | ····/·˘·/˘··· |
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