The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters XCIV
And now broke forth the morning, and now drew back the night.Those bands of Christ delayed not to get ready for the fight.At the middle cocks ere morning, mass for them Jerome did chant,And mass said, absolution in full to them did grant:
"Who face to face shall perish this day the fight within,May Christ receive his spirit, on my soul I take his sin.Cid, don Rodrigo, in good hour thou girdedst brand; to theeI sang the mass this morning. Grant then my boon to me:Give me to strike the foremost the first stroke of the war.""The thing to thee is granted," answered the Campeador.
Words in this poem
- broke v. i.
- To transact business for another. Brome. [See Broker, and cf. Brook.]
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
- boon n.
- A prayer or petition. [OE. bone, boin, a petition, fr. Icel. b; akin to Sw. & Dan. b, AS. b, and perh. to E. ban; but influenced by F. bon good, fr. L. bonus. Ban, Bounty.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters XCIV 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 XCIV is 10 lines in 2 stanzas. The metre is iambic hexameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 81%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.4 syllables. 10% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in iambic hexameter.
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 nightA · fightA · chantB · grantB
- 2 AABB-- withinA · sinA · theeB · meB · war · campeador
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 hexameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| And now broke forth the morning, and now drew back the night. | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| Those bands of Christ delayed not to get ready for the fight. | 14 | ····˘/···/˘··· |
| At the middle cocks ere morning, mass for them Jerome did chant, | 15 | ··/˘··/˘···˘/·· |
| And mass said, absolution in full to them did grant: | 13 | ····˘/˘······ |
| "Who face to face shall perish this day the fight within, | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| May Christ receive his spirit, on my soul I take his sin. | 13 | ··˘/·/······· |
| Cid, don Rodrigo, in good hour thou girdedst brand; to thee | 14 | ··˘/˘··/······ |
| I sang the mass this morning. Grant then my boon to me: | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| Give me to strike the foremost the first stroke of the war." | 13 | ·····/······· |
| "The thing to thee is granted," answered the Campeador. | 13 | ·····/˘/˘···· |
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