The Banishment of the Cid XXI
'Twas not yet come to sunset, and lingered still the day.My lord the Cid gave orders his henchmen to array.Apart from the footsoldiers, and valiant men of war,There were three hundred lances that each a pennon bore.
Words in this poem
- valiant a.
- Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer. [OE. valiant, F. vaillant, OF. vaillant, valant, originally p. pr. of OF. & F. valoir to be worth, L. valere to be strong. See Wield, and cf. Avail, Convalesce, ]
- pennon n.
- A wing; a pinion. [Cf. Pinion.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid XXI 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 XXI is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic heptameter. 63% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 13.0 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 AABB dayA · arrayA · warB · boreB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 'Twas not yet come to sunset, and lingered still the day. | 13 | ·····/··/˘··· |
| My lord the Cid gave orders his henchmen to array. | 13 | ·····/˘·/˘·˘/ |
| Apart from the footsoldiers, and valiant men of war, | 13 | ˘/······/˘··· |
| There were three hundred lances that each a pennon bore. | 13 | ···/˘/˘···/˘· |
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