Analysis of Cantiga de Santa Maria, No. 100
Santa Maria,
Strela do dia,
mostra-nos via
era Deus e nos guia.
Ca veer faze-los errados
que perder foran per pecados
entender de que mui culpados
son; mais per ti son perdõados
da ousadia
que lles fazia
fazer folia
mais que non deveria,
Santa Maria…
Amostrar-nos deves carreira
por gãar en toda maneira
a sen par luz e verdadeira
que tu dar-nos podes senlleira;
ca Deus a ti a
outorgaria
e a querria
por ti dar e daria.
Santa Maria…
Guiar ben nos pod' o teu siso
mais ca ren pera Parayso
u Deus ten senpre goy' e riso
pora quen en el creer quiso;
e prazer-m-ia
se te prazia
que foss' a mia
alm' en tal compannia.
Santa Maria…
Mary, magnified be,
with Daystar beside thee;
show the way where bide we
true to God and thou our guide be.
For thou art light that lost souls driven
near perdition, e'er with sin ill striven,
know that they with guilt sore riven
stand; but throught thee are forgive
and from their pride free
where they ne'er idly
let passion denied be
bout did all sense defied see.
Blessed Mary…
Thou canst reveal to us wayfaring
paths to tread in grace full sharing
to peerless Light, the trugh declaring,
that thou alone art graced in bearing;
for God would abide thee
and all provide He
but ne'er thee denied see
nor for thee grace e'er belied be.
Blessed Mary…
Well for us thy wisdom guiding
till in Paradise abiding
where God all joy and mirth providing
waits ever those in him confiding;
then would my joy descried be
shouldst thou but deign provide me
that rest on high beside thee
my soul where doth abide he
Blessed Mary …
Scheme | Aaab ccccxcdaA aaaaaaaaA ccccacaeA ffff eeexfdfcF bbbbffcfF bbbbffffF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010 1110 1110 101111 11111 111011 111101 1111111 11 111 11 1111 10010 111010 1111101 011111 111111 11010 1 101 1111100 10010 1111111 111101 11111110 111111 11110 111 11010 1111 10010 10101 11011 101111 111011011 111111110 111011110 11111110 1111101 01111 11110 110011 1111011 110 1101111 11101110 110101010 110111010 111011 01011 111011 111110011 110 11111010 1010010 111101010 110101010 111111 1111011 1111011 1111011 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,651 |
Words | 293 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 9, 9, 9, 4, 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 62 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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