The Banishment of the Cid LX
My lord the Cid Roy Diaz you shall hearken what he said:"Drink of the wine I prithee, Count, eat also of the bread.If this thou dost, no longer shalt thou be a captive then;If not, then shalt thou never see Christendom again."
Words in this poem
- 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,]
- prithee interj.
- A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I.
- shalt
- 2d per. sing. of Shall.
- christendom n.
- The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. [AS. cristend; cristen a Christian + -dom.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid LX 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 LX, 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-lx.html, id L15068.
Form and metre
The Banishment of the Cid LX is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic heptameter. 89% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.8 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 AABB saidA · breadA · thenB · againB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| My lord the Cid Roy Diaz you shall hearken what he said: | 14 | ·····/···/˘··· |
| "Drink of the wine I prithee, Count, eat also of the bread. | 14 | ·····/˘··/˘··· |
| If this thou dost, no longer shalt thou be a captive then; | 14 | ·····/˘····/˘· |
| If not, then shalt thou never see Christendom again." | 13 | ·····/˘·/˘˘˘/ |
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