The Banishment of the Cid XX
He crossed himself, and unto God his soul commended then,he was glad of the vision that had come into his kenThe next day at morning they began anew to wend.Be it known their term of sufferance at the last has made an end.In the mountains of Miédes the Cid encamped that night,With the towers of Atiénza where the Moors reign on the right.
Words in this poem
- wend n.
- A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit.
- sufferance n.
- The state of suffering; the bearing of pain; endurance. [OE. suffrance, OF. sufrance, soufrance, F. souffrance, L. sufferentia, from sufferens, -entis, p.pr. of sufferre. See Suffer.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid XX 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 XX is 6 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 83%). 86% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 14.0 syllables.
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 thenA · kenA · wendB · endB · nightC · rightC
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 |
|---|---|---|
| He crossed himself, and unto God his soul commended then, | 14 | ··˘/······˘/˘· |
| he was glad of the vision that had come into his ken | 14 | ·····/˘······· |
| The next day at morning they began anew to wend. | 13 | ····/˘·˘/˘/·· |
| Be it known their term of sufferance at the last has made an end. | 16 | ······/˘˘······· |
| In the mountains of Miédes the Cid encamped that night, | 12 | ··/˘····˘/·· |
| With the towers of Atiénza where the Moors reign on the right. | 15 | ··/˘··········· |
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