The Count of Lara Don Carlos Gentlemen of Madrid
BELTRAN CRUZADO Count of the Gypsies.BARTOLOME ROMAN A young Gypsy.PEDRO CRESPO Alcalde.PANCHO Alguacil.FRANCISCO Lara's Servant.CHISPA Victorian's Servant.BALTASAR Innkeeper.PRECIOSA A Gypsy Girl.ANGELICA A poor Girl.MARTINA The Padre Cura's Niece.DOLORES Preciosa's Maid.Gypsies, Musicians, etc.
Words in this poem
- cruzado n.
- A coin. See Crusado.
- alcalde n.
- A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc. [Sp. alcalde, fr. Ar. al-qadi judge, fr. qada to decide, judge. Hence, the cadi of the Turks. Cf. Cadi.]
- padre n.
- A Christian priest or monk; -- used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Spanish America.
- niece n.
- A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson. B. Jonson. Wyclif. [OE. nece, F. nièce, LL. neptia, for L. neptis a granddaughter, niece, akin to nepos. See Nephew.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Count of Lara Don Carlos Gentlemen of Madrid is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Project Gutenberg ebook #1365; 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 Count of Lara Don Carlos Gentlemen of Madrid is 12 lines in a single stanza. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic tetrameter. 79% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 7.6 syllables. 7 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
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-BB--- gypsies · gypsy · alcalde · alguacil · servantA · servantA · innkeeper · girlB · girlB · niece · maid · etc
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 tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| BELTRAN CRUZADO Count of the Gypsies. | 10 | /˘·/˘···/˘ |
| BARTOLOME ROMAN A young Gypsy. | 9 | ···/˘··/˘ |
| PEDRO CRESPO Alcalde. | 7 | /˘/˘˘/˘ |
| PANCHO Alguacil. | 5 | /˘··· |
| FRANCISCO Lara's Servant. | 7 | ˘/˘/˘/˘ |
| CHISPA Victorian's Servant. | 8 | ··˘/˘˘/˘ |
| BALTASAR Innkeeper. | 6 | ···/·˘ |
| PRECIOSA A Gypsy Girl. | 7 | ····/˘· |
| ANGELICA A poor Girl. | 7 | /˘·˘··· |
| MARTINA The Padre Cura's Niece. | 9 | ˘/˘·/···· |
| DOLORES Preciosa's Maid. | 7 | ˘/˘···· |
| Gypsies, Musicians, etc. | 9 | /˘˘/˘·/˘˘ |
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