The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters XCVII
They have issued from Valencia. And they fettle them to fare.They must watch well so mighty a booty do they bear.And night and day they hastened for they gave themselves no rest.The mountains that divide the lauds they have passed o'er thecrest.And the folk they fell to asking where Alfonso
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.]
- fettle v. t.
- 1. To repair; to prepare; to put in order. [OE. & Prov. E., to fettle (in sense 1), fettle, n., order, repair, preparation, dress; prob. akin to E. fit. See Fit, a.]
- folk n.
- In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe. [AS. folc; akin to D. volk, OS. & OHG. folk, G. volk, Icel. f, Sw. & Dan. folk, Lith. pulkas crowd, and perh. to E. follow.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Marriage of the Cid's Daughters XCVII 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 XCVII is 6 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic hexameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 78%). 85% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 11.5 syllables.
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 AAB-B- fareA · bearA · restB · the · crestB · alfonso
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 |
|---|---|---|
| They have issued from Valencia. And they fettle them to fare. | 16 | ··/˘·˘/˘˘··/˘··· |
| They must watch well so mighty a booty do they bear. | 13 | ·····/˘·/˘··· |
| And night and day they hastened for they gave themselves no rest. | 14 | ·····/˘···˘/·· |
| The mountains that divide the lauds they have passed o'er the | 13 | ·/˘·˘/······· |
| crest. | 1 | · |
| And the folk they fell to asking where Alfonso | 12 | ······/˘···· |
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