The Banishment of the Cid XXVIII
And thereupon the tidings went out through all that land,How my lord Cid the Campeador had there got footing sure,He is gone forth from the Christians, he is come unto the Moor,In his presence no man dareth plough the farmlands as of yore.Very merry with his vassals was the great Campeador.And Alcocér the Castle wider tribute had he laid.
Words in this poem
- thereupon adv.
- Upon that or this; thereon.
- went n.
- Course; way; path; journey; direction.
- yore adv.
- In time long past; in old time; long since. [OE. , yare, , AS. geára;akin to geár a year, E. year. Year.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid XXVIII 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 XXVIII is 6 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 14.2 syllables.
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 -AA--- land · sureA · moorA · yore · campeador · laid
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 |
|---|---|---|
| And thereupon the tidings went out through all that land, | 13 | ··˘/·/˘······ |
| How my lord Cid the Campeador had there got footing sure, | 14 | ···········/˘· |
| He is gone forth from the Christians, he is come unto the Moor, | 15 | ······/˘······· |
| In his presence no man dareth plough the farmlands as of yore. | 15 | ··/˘······/···· |
| Very merry with his vassals was the great Campeador. | 14 | /˘/˘··/˘······ |
| And Alcocér the Castle wider tribute had he laid. | 14 | ·····/˘/˘/˘··· |
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