The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXXX
And now is all Valencia in peaceable estate.Minaya Alvar Fañez to Castile departed straight;His halts I will pass over, nor renew them to the mind.But he sought out Alphonso where the King was to find.The King to Sahagun had gone before some little space,But was come back to Carrión; he might find him in that place.Minaya Alvar Fañez was glad when this was known.With his presents he departed forthwith to Carrión.
Words in this poem
- 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.]
- peaceable a.
- Begin in or at peace; tranquil; quiet; free from, or not disposed to, war, disorder, or excitement; not quarrelsome. [OE. peisible, F. paisible.]
- forthwith adv.
- Immediately; without delay; directly.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXXX 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 LXXX is 8 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 75% of the lines. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%). 93% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.5 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 AABBCC-- estateA · straightA · mindB · findB · spaceC · placeC · known · carrión
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 |
|---|---|---|
| And now is all Valencia in peaceable estate. | 14 | ····˘/˘˘·/˘˘˘/ |
| Minaya Alvar Fañez to Castile departed straight; | 14 | ··········˘/˘· |
| His halts I will pass over, nor renew them to the mind. | 14 | ········˘/···· |
| But he sought out Alphonso where the King was to find. | 13 | ····˘/˘······ |
| The King to Sahagun had gone before some little space, | 14 | ···/˘˘·····/˘· |
| But was come back to Carrión; he might find him in that place. | 14 | ·············· |
| Minaya Alvar Fañez was glad when this was known. | 12 | ············ |
| With his presents he departed forthwith to Carrión. | 13 | ··/˘·˘/˘//··· |
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