The Banishment of the Cid LV
Afar into all quarters did the tidings of him run.They brought the message to the Count of Barcelona's hand,How that the Cid Roy Diaz was o'errunning all the land.He was wroth. For a sore insult the tiding did he take.
Words in this poem
- 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.]
- wroth a.
- Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful. [OE. wroth, wrap, AS. wraedh wroth, crooked, bad; akin to wriedhan to writhe, and to OS. wreedhangry, D. wreed cruel, OHG. reid twisted, Icel. reiedhr angry, Dan]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid LV 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 LV is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 50% of the lines. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic heptameter. 100% 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 -AA- run · handA · landA · take
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Afar into all quarters did the tidings of him run. | 14 | ˘/···/˘··/˘··· |
| They brought the message to the Count of Barcelona's hand, | 14 | ···/˘·····˘/˘· |
| How that the Cid Roy Diaz was o'errunning all the land. | 14 | ·····/········ |
| He was wroth. For a sore insult the tiding did he take. | 14 | ······˘/·/˘··· |
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