The Banishment of the Cid LIX
By the victory there much honor unto his beard he did.And then the Count to his own tent was taken by the Cid.He bade his squires guard him. From the tent he hastened then.From every side together about him came his men.The Cid was glad, so mighty were the spoils of that defeat.For the lord Cid don Rodrigo they prepared great stock of meat.But namely the Count don Remónd, thereby he set no store.To him they brought the viands, and placed them him before.He would not eat, and at them all he mocked with might and main:
"I will not eat a mouthful for all the wealth in Spain;Rather will I lose my body and forsake my soul forby,Since beaten in the battle by such tattered louts was I."
Words in this poem
- bade
- A form of the pat tense of Bid.
- defeat v. t.
- To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. [From F. défait, OF. desfait, p. p. ofe défaire, OF. desfaire, to undo; L. dis- + facere to do. See Feat, Fact, and cf. Disfashion.]
- namely adv.
- By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly.
- mouthful n.
- As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.
- wealth n.
- Weal; welfare; prosperity; good. [OE. welthe, from wele; cf. D. weelde luxury. See Weal prosperity.]
- forby adv.
- Near; hard by; along; past. [See Foreby.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid LIX 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 LIX is 12 lines in 2 verse paragraphs. It is in rhyming couplets, 67% of the lines. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 84%). 97% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 14.0 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- didA · cidA · thenB · menB · defeatC · meatC · storeD · beforeD · main
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 |
|---|---|---|
| By the victory there much honor unto his beard he did. | 14 | ··/˘··/˘······ |
| And then the Count to his own tent was taken by the Cid. | 14 | ·········/˘··· |
| He bade his squires guard him. From the tent he hastened then. | 14 | ···/˘······/˘· |
| From every side together about him came his men. | 14 | ·/˘˘·˘/˘······ |
| The Cid was glad, so mighty were the spoils of that defeat. | 14 | ·····/˘·····˘/ |
| For the lord Cid don Rodrigo they prepared great stock of meat. | 15 | ·····˘/˘·˘/···· |
| But namely the Count don Remónd, thereby he set no store. | 14 | ·/˘··········· |
| To him they brought the viands, and placed them him before. | 13 | ········˘···· |
| He would not eat, and at them all he mocked with might and main: | 14 | ·············· |
| "I will not eat a mouthful for all the wealth in Spain; | 13 | ·····/······· |
| Rather will I lose my body and forsake my soul forby, | 15 | /˘····/˘·˘/··˘/ |
| Since beaten in the battle by such tattered louts was I." | 14 | ·/˘··/˘··/˘··· |
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