The Banishment of the Cid XLI
"Of the gold and the fine silver, behold a bootful here.Nothing thereto is lacking. Thou shalt pay the money downAt Saint Mary's Church for masses fifty score in Burgos town;To my wife and to my daughters the remainder do thou bear.Let them offer day and night for me continually their prayer.If I live, exceeding wealthy all of those dames shall be.
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.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid XLI 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 XLI is 6 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 67% of the lines. The metre is trochaic octameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%). 85% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 14.7 syllables.
See other poems in rhyming couplets, other poems in trochaic octameter.
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 ABBAA- hereA · downB · townB · bearA · prayerA · be
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 trochaic octameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| "Of the gold and the fine silver, behold a bootful here. | 14 | ······/˘˘/···· |
| Nothing thereto is lacking. Thou shalt pay the money down | 14 | /˘˘/·/˘····/˘· |
| At Saint Mary's Church for masses fifty score in Burgos town; | 15 | ··/˘··/˘/˘··/˘· |
| To my wife and to my daughters the remainder do thou bear. | 15 | ······/˘·˘/˘··· |
| Let them offer day and night for me continually their prayer. | 16 | ··/˘·····˘/˘˘˘·· |
| If I live, exceeding wealthy all of those dames shall be. | 14 | ···˘/˘/˘······ |
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