The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXXXV
Nothing had ever gladdened him so much as this or more,For now there came good news of them for whom great love he had.Straightway two hundred horsemen to go forth to them he bade,To the good dames and Minaya fair reception to afford.But he tarried in Valencia to watch it and to ward,For he knew that Alvar Fañez with all due care would come.
Words in this poem
- straightway adv.
- Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
- bade
- A form of the pat tense of Bid.
- 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.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXXXV 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 LXXXV is 6 lines in a single stanza. 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 14.0 syllables.
See 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- more · had · bade · affordA · wardA · come
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nothing had ever gladdened him so much as this or more, | 14 | /˘·/˘/˘······· |
| For now there came good news of them for whom great love he had. | 14 | ·············· |
| Straightway two hundred horsemen to go forth to them he bade, | 14 | /˘·/˘/˘······· |
| To the good dames and Minaya fair reception to afford. | 14 | ········˘/˘·˘/ |
| But he tarried in Valencia to watch it and to ward, | 14 | ····˘/˘˘······ |
| For he knew that Alvar Fañez with all due care would come. | 14 | ·············· |
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