The Banishment of the Cid XIV
Martin went back to Burgos but my lord the Cid spurred onTo San Pedro of Cardeñas as hard as horse could run,With all his men about him who served him as is due.And it was nigh to morning, and the cocks full oft they crew,When at last my lord the Campeador unto San Pedro came.God's Christian was the Abbot. Don Sancho was his name;And he was saying matins at the breaking of the day.With her five good dames in waiting Xiména there did pray.They prayed unto Saint Peter and God they did implore:"O thou who guidest all mankind, succor the Campeador."
Words in this poem
- went n.
- Course; way; path; journey; direction.
- sancho n.
- The nine of trumps in sancho pedro.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid XIV 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 XIV 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 77%). 83% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 14.0 syllables. 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 --AABBCC-- on · run · dueA · crewA · cameB · nameB · dayC · prayC · implore · campeador
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Martin went back to Burgos but my lord the Cid spurred on | 14 | /˘···/˘······· |
| To San Pedro of Cardeñas as hard as horse could run, | 14 | ··/˘·········· |
| With all his men about him who served him as is due. | 14 | ·········˘···· |
| And it was nigh to morning, and the cocks full oft they crew, | 14 | ·····/˘······· |
| When at last my lord the Campeador unto San Pedro came. | 15 | ············/˘· |
| God's Christian was the Abbot. Don Sancho was his name; | 13 | ·/˘··/˘·/˘··· |
| And he was saying matins at the breaking of the day. | 14 | ···/˘····/˘··· |
| With her five good dames in waiting Xiména there did pray. | 14 | ······/˘······ |
| They prayed unto Saint Peter and God they did implore: | 14 | ··˘···/˘····˘/ |
| "O thou who guidest all mankind, succor the Campeador." | 14 | ···/˘·///˘···· |
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