The Banishment of the Cid LII
And he who in good hour was born tarried in no way then,But he took knights two hundred, and all were chosen men;And forth when fell the evening a-raiding did they haste.At Alcañiz the meadows the Campeador laid waste,And gave all places round about to ravage and to sack.On the third day to whence he came the Cid again turned back.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid LII 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.
Cite as: Anonymous, The Banishment of the Cid LII, in The Lay of the Cid (1919), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #6088, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/lay-of-the-cid/the-banishment-of-the-cid-lii.html, id L15060.
Form and metre
The Banishment of the Cid LII is 6 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 79%). 83% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.5 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 AABBCC thenA · menA · hasteB · wasteB · sackC · backC
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 |
|---|---|---|
| And he who in good hour was born tarried in no way then, | 14 | ·····/˘······· |
| But he took knights two hundred, and all were chosen men; | 13 | ·····/˘···/˘· |
| And forth when fell the evening a-raiding did they haste. | 13 | ·····/˘·/˘··· |
| At Alcañiz the meadows the Campeador laid waste, | 13 | ·····/······· |
| And gave all places round about to ravage and to sack. | 14 | ···/˘····/˘··· |
| On the third day to whence he came the Cid again turned back. | 14 | ··········˘/·· |
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