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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. 40–49

Chapter 3
The Metrics of Martin Codax

| The Johns Hopkins University

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
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 1 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.218.03coh
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