The Banishment of the Cid XIX
When it was night the Cid lay down. In a deep sleep he fell,And to him in a vision came the angel Gabriel:
"Ride, Cid, most noble Campeador, for never yet did knightRide forth upon an hour whose aspect was so bright.While thou shalt live good fortune shall be with thee and shine."When he awoke, upon his face he made the holy sign.
Words in this poem
- shalt
- 2d per. sing. of Shall.
- 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,]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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The Banishment of the Cid XIX 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 XIX is 6 lines in 2 stanzas. The metre is fourteeners, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 81%). 92% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.7 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
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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 AA fellA · gabrielA
- 2 AABB knightA · brightA · shineB · signB
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 fourteeners. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| When it was night the Cid lay down. In a deep sleep he fell, | 14 | ·············· |
| And to him in a vision came the angel Gabriel: | 14 | ·····/˘··/˘/˘˘ |
| "Ride, Cid, most noble Campeador, for never yet did knight | 14 | ···/˘····/˘··· |
| Ride forth upon an hour whose aspect was so bright. | 13 | ·····/˘·/···· |
| While thou shalt live good fortune shall be with thee and shine." | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| When he awoke, upon his face he made the holy sign. | 14 | ··˘/·······/˘· |
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