The Banishment of the Cid II
Then they shook out the bridle rein further to ride afar.They had the crow on their right hand as they issued from Bivár;And as they entered Burgos upon their left it sped.And the Cid shrugged his shoulders, and the Cid shook his head:"Good tidings, Alvar Fañez. We are banished from our weal,But on a day with honor shall we come unto Castile."
Words in this poem
- shook v. t.
- To pack, as staves, in a shook.
- afar adv.
- At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. [Pref. a-.(for on or of) + far.]
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid II 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 II is 6 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 74%). 89% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 14.2 syllables.
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 --AA-- afar · bivár · spedA · headA · weal · castile
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Then they shook out the bridle rein further to ride afar. | 14 | ·····/˘·/˘··˘/ |
| They had the crow on their right hand as they issued from Bivár; | 15 | ··········/˘··· |
| And as they entered Burgos upon their left it sped. | 13 | ···/˘/˘······ |
| And the Cid shrugged his shoulders, and the Cid shook his head: | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| "Good tidings, Alvar Fañez. We are banished from our weal, | 15 | ·/˘······/˘·/˘· |
| But on a day with honor shall we come unto Castile." | 15 | ·····/˘········ |
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