The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXXXVII
With them the lord Cid hastened to the citadel apace,He has ta 'en the ladies straightway up to the highest place.And forth in all directions they turn their lovely eyes,And they behold Valencia and how the city lies,And in another quarter they might perceive the sea.They look on fertile meadows close sown and great that be,And on all things whatever that were of fair estateGod they praised with hands uplifted for that good prize andgreat.
My lord Cid and his followers thereof were glad and fain.And now was winter over, for March would come again.And of the countries oversea 'tis my desire to tell,Even of the King Yússuf in Morocco that did dwell.
Words in this poem
- apace adv.
- With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. [Pref. a- + pace. OE. a pas at a walk, in which a is the article. See Pace.]
- straightway adv.
- Immediately; without loss of time; without delay.
- 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.]
- fain v. t.
- To be glad ; to wish or desire.
- oversea a.
- Beyond the sea; foreign.
- 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.]
- dwell v. i.
- To delay; to linger. [OE. dwellen, dwelien, to err, linger, AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dv]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters LXXXVII 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 LXXXVII is 13 lines in 2 stanzas. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 76%). 80% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 12.4 syllables. 15% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
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 AABBCCD-D apaceA · placeA · eyesB · liesB · seaC · beC · estateD · and · greatD
- 2 AABB fainA · againA · tellB · dwellB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| With them the lord Cid hastened to the citadel apace, | 14 | ·····/˘··/˘·˘/ |
| He has ta 'en the ladies straightway up to the highest place. | 15 | ·····/˘/˘···/˘· |
| And forth in all directions they turn their lovely eyes, | 13 | ····˘/˘···/˘· |
| And they behold Valencia and how the city lies, | 13 | ··˘/˘/˘···/˘· |
| And in another quarter they might perceive the sea. | 13 | ··˘/˘/˘··˘/·· |
| They look on fertile meadows close sown and great that be, | 13 | ···/˘/······· |
| And on all things whatever that were of fair estate | 13 | ·····/˘····˘/ |
| God they praised with hands uplifted for that good prize and | 13 | ·····/˘˘····· |
| great. | 1 | · |
| My lord Cid and his followers thereof were glad and fain. | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| And now was winter over, for March would come again. | 13 | ···/˘······˘/ |
| And of the countries oversea 'tis my desire to tell, | 14 | ···/˘·˘/··˘/·· |
| Even of the King Yússuf in Morocco that did dwell. | 13 | /······˘/˘··· |
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