In:The Vindel Parchment and Martin Codax / O Pergamiño Vindel e Martin Codax: The Golden Age of Medieval Galician Poetry / O esplendor da poesía galega medieval
Edited by Alexandre Rodríguez Guerra and Xosé Bieito Arias Freixedo
[Not in series 218] 2018
► pp. 39–49
Chapter 3The Metrics of Martin Codax
Published online: 1 November 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.218.03coh
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.218.03coh
Abstract
This paper analyzes interrelated aspects of metrics in the seven cantigas d’amigo of Martin Codax: strophic design; the rhetorical technique of interlocking repetition with variation called leixa-pren; and theoretical connections between form, rhetoric and ease of cognitive processing (drawing on Nigel Fabb 2014, 2015). It also argues that a metrical analysis of these poems supports the thesis that they constitute an organized sequence.
Keywords:
cantigas d’amigo
, metrics, strophic design,
leixa-pren
, working memory, poetic sequences
Article outline
- 1.Form
- 2.Rhetoric
- 3.A sequence?
- 4.Magic
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