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Songs of a Friend
Love Lyrics of Medieval Portugal
by Barbara Hughes Fowler
136 Pages, Published 2005 by Unc Press Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-7600-8, ISBN: 0-8078-7600-3
"The Portuguese songs have strict metrical and rhyming patterns.2 I have made
my own formal metrical patterns but have relied upon alliteration and assonance
rather than rhyme to make Anglo-Saxon sound patterns. Since my translations
are almost line-for-line, ... The refrain, which often undercuts the entire stanza, is
an essential component of the cantigas de amigo. I have based my translation on
the ..."
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