The Banishment of the Cid XVII
A mighty feast they had prepared for the Great CampeadorThe bells within San Pedro they clamor and they peal.That my lord the Cid is banished men cry throughout Castile.And some have left their houses, from their lands some fled away.Of knights an hundred and fifteen were seen upon that day,By the bridge across the Arlanzon together they came o'er.One and all were they calling on the Cid Campeador.And Martin Antolínez has joined him with their power.They sought him in San Pedro, who was born in a good hour.
Words in this poem
- peal v. i.
- To appeal. Spencer.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid XVII 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 XVII is 9 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 84%). 89% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 14.1 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 11% 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 A--BB-ACC campeadorA · peal · castile · awayB · dayB · o'er · campeadorA · powerC · hourC
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 |
|---|---|---|
| A mighty feast they had prepared for the Great Campeador | 14 | ·/˘···˘/······ |
| The bells within San Pedro they clamor and they peal. | 13 | ·····/˘·/˘··· |
| That my lord the Cid is banished men cry throughout Castile. | 15 | ······/˘······· |
| And some have left their houses, from their lands some fled away. | 14 | ·····/˘·····˘/ |
| Of knights an hundred and fifteen were seen upon that day, | 14 | ···/˘·˘/······ |
| By the bridge across the Arlanzon together they came o'er. | 15 | ···˘/····˘/˘··· |
| One and all were they calling on the Cid Campeador. | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| And Martin Antolínez has joined him with their power. | 14 | ·/˘·········/˘ |
| They sought him in San Pedro, who was born in a good hour. | 15 | ·····/˘······/˘ |
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