The Banishment of the Cid LI
But God! What a glad aspect the Cid fair-bearded woreThat duly had Minaya paid for masses fifty score,And of his wife and daughters all of the state displayed!God! How content was he thereat! What noble cheer he made!
"Ha! Alvar Fañez, many now may thy life-days be.What fair despatch thou madest! Thou art worth more than we."
Words in this poem
- thereat adv.
- At that place; there.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid LI 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 LI is 6 lines in 2 stanzas. The metre is iambic hexameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 76%). 75% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.2 syllables.
See other poems in iambic hexameter.
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 AABB woreA · scoreA · displayedB · madeB
- 2 AA beA · weA
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 hexameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| But God! What a glad aspect the Cid fair-bearded wore | 13 | ·····/····/˘· |
| That duly had Minaya paid for masses fifty score, | 13 | ·/˘·····/˘/˘· |
| And of his wife and daughters all of the state displayed! | 13 | ·····/˘····˘/ |
| God! How content was he thereat! What noble cheer he made! | 14 | ··/˘··˘/·/˘··· |
| "Ha! Alvar Fañez, many now may thy life-days be. | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| What fair despatch thou madest! Thou art worth more than we." | 13 | ··˘/········· |
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