The Banishment of the Cid XLIII
"Dost thou then go, Minaya, to the great land of CastileAnd unto our well-wishers with a clear heart canst thou say:'God granted us his favor, and we conquered in the fray?'If returning thou shalt find us here in this place, 'tis well;If not, where thou shalt hear of us, go seek us where we dwell.For we must gain our daily bread with the lance and with thebrand,Since otherwise we perish here in a barren land.And therefore as methinketh, we must get hence away."
Words in this poem
- shalt
- 2d per. sing. of Shall.
- 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]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid XLIII 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.
Cite as: Anonymous, The Banishment of the Cid XLIII, in The Lay of the Cid (1919), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #6088, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/lay-of-the-cid/the-banishment-of-the-cid-xliii.html, id L15052.
Form and metre
The Banishment of the Cid XLIII is 9 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 79%). 93% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 12.3 syllables. 22% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See 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 -AABB-CCA castile · sayA · frayA · wellB · dwellB · the · brandC · landC · awayA
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 |
|---|---|---|
| "Dost thou then go, Minaya, to the great land of Castile | 14 | ·············· |
| And unto our well-wishers with a clear heart canst thou say: | 14 | ···/·/˘······· |
| 'God granted us his favor, and we conquered in the fray?' | 14 | ·/˘··/˘··/˘··· |
| If returning thou shalt find us here in this place, 'tis well; | 14 | ·˘/˘·········· |
| If not, where thou shalt hear of us, go seek us where we dwell. | 14 | ·············· |
| For we must gain our daily bread with the lance and with the | 14 | ····//˘······· |
| brand, | 1 | · |
| Since otherwise we perish here in a barren land. | 13 | ·/˘··/˘···/˘· |
| And therefore as methinketh, we must get hence away." | 13 | ···········˘/ |
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