The Banishment of the Cid VII
Ruddy shall be the leather, well gilded every nail.In my behalf do thou hasten to Vidas and Raquél.Since in Burgos they forbade me aught to purchase, and the KingWithdraws his favor, unto them my goods I cannot bring.They are heavy, and I must pawn them for whatso'er is right.That Christians may not see it, let them come for them by night.May the Creator judge it and of all the Saints the choir.I can no more, and I do it against my own desire."
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,]
- aught n.
- Property; possession. [AS. , fr. agan to own, p. p. ahte.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid VII 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 VII is 8 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 75% of the lines. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 78%). 92% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 14.4 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 12% 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 --AABBCC nail · raquél · kingA · bringA · rightB · nightB · choirC · desireC
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ruddy shall be the leather, well gilded every nail. | 14 | /˘···/˘·/˘/˘˘· |
| In my behalf do thou hasten to Vidas and Raquél. | 14 | ··˘/··/˘·/˘··· |
| Since in Burgos they forbade me aught to purchase, and the King | 15 | ··/˘·˘/···/˘··· |
| Withdraws his favor, unto them my goods I cannot bring. | 14 | ˘/·/˘······/˘· |
| They are heavy, and I must pawn them for whatso'er is right. | 14 | ··/˘·········· |
| That Christians may not see it, let them come for them by night. | 14 | ·/˘··········· |
| May the Creator judge it and of all the Saints the choir. | 15 | ··˘/˘········/˘ |
| I can no more, and I do it against my own desire." | 15 | ············˘/˘ |
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