The Banishment of the Cid I
He turned and looked upon them, and he wept very soreAs he saw the yawning gateway and the hasps wrenched off the door,And the pegs whereon no mantle nor coat of vair there hung.There perched no moulting goshawk, and there no falcon swung.My lord the Cid sighed deeply such grief was in his heartAnd he spake well and wisely:"Oh Thou, in Heaven that artOur Father and our Master, now I give thanks to Thee.Of their wickedness my foemen have done this thing to me."
Words in this poem
- whereon adv.
- On which; -- used relatively; as, the earth whereon we live.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid I 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 Banishment of the Cid I is 9 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 73%). 87% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 12.3 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 33% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See 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 AABBC-CDD soreA · doorA · hungB · swungB · heartC · wisely · artC · theeD · meD
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 |
|---|---|---|
| He turned and looked upon them, and he wept very sore | 13 | ··········/˘· |
| As he saw the yawning gateway and the hasps wrenched off the door, | 15 | ····/˘/········ |
| And the pegs whereon no mantle nor coat of vair there hung. | 14 | ···˘/·/˘······ |
| There perched no moulting goshawk, and there no falcon swung. | 13 | ·····/····/˘· |
| My lord the Cid sighed deeply such grief was in his heart | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| And he spake well and wisely: | 7 | ·····/˘ |
| "Oh Thou, in Heaven that art | 7 | ···/˘·· |
| Our Father and our Master, now I give thanks to Thee. | 15 | /˘/˘·/˘/˘······ |
| Of their wickedness my foemen have done this thing to me." | 14 | ··/˘˘········· |
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