The Banishment of the Cid XIII
And the lord Cid departed fondly as a good man may.Forthwith they loosed the horses, and out they spurred away.Said good Martin Antolínez in Burgos that did dwell:"I would see my lady gladly and advise my people wellWhat they shall do hereafter. It matters not to meThough the King take all. Ere sunrise I shall come unto thee."
Words in this poem
- fondly adv.
- Foolishly. Verstegan (1673).
- forthwith adv.
- Immediately; without delay; directly.
- dwell v. i.
- To delay; to linger. [OE. dwellen, dwelien, to err, linger, AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dv]
- gladly adv.
- Preferably; by choice. [From Glad, a.]
- 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,]
- hereafter adv.
- In time to come; in some future time or state. [AS. hræfter.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid XIII 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 XIII is 6 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. 77% 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 AABBCC mayA · awayA · dwellB · wellB · meC · theeC
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 |
|---|---|---|
| And the lord Cid departed fondly as a good man may. | 14 | ····˘/˘/˘····· |
| Forthwith they loosed the horses, and out they spurred away. | 13 | //···/˘····˘/ |
| Said good Martin Antolínez in Burgos that did dwell: | 14 | ··/˘·····/˘··· |
| "I would see my lady gladly and advise my people well | 15 | ····/˘/˘·˘/·/˘· |
| What they shall do hereafter. It matters not to me | 13 | ····˘/˘·/˘··· |
| Though the King take all. Ere sunrise I shall come unto thee." | 14 | ······/······· |
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