The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXXVIII
The King's heart of Morocco 'gainst the Cid was full of rage."By force the man hath entered into my heritage,And giveth thanks to no one save Jesus Christ therefor."
And the King of Morocco gathered his hosts of war.With fifty times a thousand under arms, good men and stark,They put to sea. In galleons that army did embarkTo seek the Cid Rodrigo in Valencia they went,The ships came in; and straightway issued forth that armament.
Words in this poem
- morocco n.
- A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors. [Named from Morocco, the country. Cf. Morris the dance.]
- heritage a.
- That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance. [OE. heritage, eritage, OF. heritage, eritage, F. héritage, fr. hériter to inherit, LL. heriditare. See Hereditable.]
- therefor adv.
- For that, or this; for it. [There + for. Cf. Therefore.]
- stark adv.
- Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind.
- valencia n.
- A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton. [Perhaps fr. Valence in France.]
- went n.
- Course; way; path; journey; direction.
- straightway adv.
- Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
- armament n.
- A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. [L. armamenta, pl., utensils, esp. the tackle of a ship, fr. armare to arm: cf. LL. armamentum, F. armement.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXXVIII 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 LXXVIII is 8 lines in 2 verse paragraphs. It is in rhyming couplets, 75% of the lines. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%). 84% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.9 syllables. 2 lines end 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 AA- rageA · heritageA · therefor
- 2 -AABB war · starkA · embarkA · wentB · armamentB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The King's heart of Morocco 'gainst the Cid was full of rage. | 14 | ····˘/˘······· |
| "By force the man hath entered into my heritage, | 14 | ·····/˘˘···/˘˘ |
| And giveth thanks to no one save Jesus Christ therefor." | 13 | ·/˘·····/˘·˘/ |
| And the King of Morocco gathered his hosts of war. | 14 | ····˘/˘/˘˘···· |
| With fifty times a thousand under arms, good men and stark, | 14 | ·/˘··/˘······· |
| They put to sea. In galleons that army did embark | 14 | ·····/˘˘·/˘·˘/ |
| To seek the Cid Rodrigo in Valencia they went, | 14 | ····˘/˘·˘/˘˘·· |
| The ships came in; and straightway issued forth that armament. | 14 | ·····/˘/˘··/˘˘ |
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