Composed of 3730 lines divided unevenly into 152 laisses or stanzas, the overall structure of the epic falls into three cantar.
of the Poema, ("Odres Nuevos", Madrid, 1955).The Cid survives in one manuscript dated to 1207, which was likely composed as early as 1140 and may have circulated orally before being transcribed. by Correa in Hispanic Review, XXV (1957), 280-90 preface by F. Gustavo Correa, "El tema de la honra en el Poema del Cid", Hispanic Review, XX (1952), 185-199 Edmund de Chasca, "The King-Vassal in El Poema de MioCid ", Hispanic Review, XXI (1953), 183-192, and Estructura y forma en el Poema de Mio Cid (Iowa and Mexico, 195 5) review art. It is reasonable to suppose, however, that the poet would wish to incorporate as much orally-transmitted Even if we knew the precise form and content of this previous and the extent ot the poet's refashioning, we could not unlearn the lessons of La España del Cid, by which we are so much better informed, in many ways, than the twelfth-century audience was. We can never known how immediately successful he was in making this double contact with this audience. He had to respect whatever previous knowledge of the Cid's career the audience might be presumed to have, and to make this contribute to his new conception of the hero's destiny. The anonymous poet who composed our epic had to confront the characteristic problems of presenting a new poem on an old subject. I hope to have the reader's indulgence for what may appear, to be sins of My intention here is to add some supplementary observations, and in doing so I shall try, as far as possible, to avoid whas has been well said elsewhere. Several recent studies of the Poema de Mio Cid have drawn attention to the artistic ordering of material, the structural and stylistic elements, the processes by which a figure of exemplary value is related to a frame of time, place and social values '.
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