The Banishment of the Cid VI
Then said the Cid, who in good hour had girded on the steel:"Oh Martin Antolínez, thou art a good lance and leal.And if I live, hereafter I shall pay thee double rent,But gone is all my silver, and all my gold is spent.And well enough thou seest that I bring naught with meAnd many things are needful for my good company.Since by favor I win nothing by might then must I gain.I desire by thy counsel to get ready coffers twain.With the sand let us fill them, to lift a burden sore,And cover them with stamped leather with nails well studded o'er.
Words in this poem
- leal a.
- Faithful; loyal; true. [OE. leial, another form of loial, F. loyal. See Loyal.]
- hereafter adv.
- In time to come; in some future time or state. [AS. hræfter.]
- 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,]
- needful a.
- Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.
- twain a.
- Two;- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. [OE. twein, tweien, tweyne, AS. twegen, masc. See Two.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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The Banishment of the Cid VI 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 VI is 10 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 60% of the lines. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 79%). 91% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.5 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 10% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
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--CC-- steelA · lealA · rentB · spentB · me · company · gainC · twainC · sore · o'er
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Then said the Cid, who in good hour had girded on the steel: | 14 | ·······/·/˘··· |
| "Oh Martin Antolínez, thou art a good lance and leal. | 14 | ·/˘··········· |
| And if I live, hereafter I shall pay thee double rent, | 14 | ····˘/˘····/˘· |
| But gone is all my silver, and all my gold is spent. | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| And well enough thou seest that I bring naught with me | 12 | ··˘/········ |
| And many things are needful for my good company. | 13 | ·/˘··/˘···/˘˘ |
| Since by favor I win nothing by might then must I gain. | 14 | ··/˘··/˘······ |
| I desire by thy counsel to get ready coffers twain. | 14 | ·˘/··/˘··/˘/˘· |
| With the sand let us fill them, to lift a burden sore, | 13 | ··········/˘· |
| And cover them with stamped leather with nails well studded o'er. | 14 | ·/˘···/˘···/˘· |
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