The Affront of Corpes CXXI
It was a mighty booty that the Cid his host had ta 'en.Part is their own. In safety they kept the rest aside.My lord the Cid gave orders who was born in a good tide,That to all men of that conquest his true share they should allot,And that the fifth of my lord Cid should nowise be forgot.And all men did according, being prudent one and all.For his fifth, six hundred horses to my lord Cid did fall,And there were many camels and, moreover, mules as well.Of them there were so many, that their number none might tell.
Words in this poem
- nowise adv.
- Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways. [For in no wise. See Wise, n.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Affront of Corpes CXXI is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Lay of the Cid, Project Gutenberg ebook #6088, the R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
The Affront of Corpes CXXI is 9 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 89% of the lines. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 83%). 94% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 14.1 syllables.
See other poems in rhyming couplets, other poems in iambic heptameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -AABBCCDD en · asideA · tideA · allotB · forgotB · allC · fallC · wellD · tellD
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic heptameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| It was a mighty booty that the Cid his host had ta 'en. | 15 | ···/˘/˘········ |
| Part is their own. In safety they kept the rest aside. | 13 | ·····/˘····˘/ |
| My lord the Cid gave orders who was born in a good tide, | 14 | ·····/˘······· |
| That to all men of that conquest his true share they should allot, | 15 | ······/˘·····˘/ |
| And that the fifth of my lord Cid should nowise be forgot. | 14 | ·········/˘·˘/ |
| And all men did according, being prudent one and all. | 14 | ····˘/˘/˘/˘··· |
| For his fifth, six hundred horses to my lord Cid did fall, | 14 | ····/˘/˘······ |
| And there were many camels and, moreover, mules as well. | 14 | ···/˘/˘·˘/˘··· |
| Of them there were so many, that their number none might tell. | 14 | ·····/˘··/˘··· |
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