aaBBB: The Strophic Form of Fernan Rodriguez de Calheiros 7

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Rip Cohen
Johns Hopkins University
United States
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8506-879X
Vol. 17 (2016), Articles, pages 33-51
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/rgf.2016.17.0.1870
Published: Nov 8, 2016
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Abstract

The refrain of a cantiga d’amigo by Fernan Rodriguez Calheiros (B 632/V 233), heretofore misunderstood as consisting of five verses, should be taken as a 3-verse refrain with two internal rhymes in the middle verse, conforming to the strophic form aaBBB. This analysis is confirmed by two virtuoso features: the middle verse of the BBB refrain scans longer than the outer ones but corresponds to the verses of the distich; and the text constitutes an example of a BBB refrain where the third verse repeats the first.

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Galician-Portuguese lyric, cantigas d’amigo, textual criticism, strophic form, historical poetics

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