The Banishment of the Cid XXXIII
They pitched the tents and got them to their lodging there andthen.Strong grew their bands for thereabouts was found great store ofmen.Moreover all the outposts, which the Moors set in array,Marched ever hither and thither in armour night and day.And many are the outposts, and great that host of war.From the Cid's men, of water have they cut off all the store.My lord the Cid's brave squadrons great lust to fight they had,But he who in good hour was born firmly the thing forbade.For full three weeks together they hemmed the city in.
Words in this poem
- thereabouts adv.
- Near that place. [The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]
- armour n.
- Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle. [OE. armure, fr. F. armure, OF. armeure, fr. L. armatura. See Armature.]
- lust v. i.
- To list; to like. [AS. lystan. See Lust, n., and cf. List to choose.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Banishment of the Cid XXXIII 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 XXXIII is 11 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic heptameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 80%). 89% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 11.1 syllables. 18% 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-ABBCC--- and · thenA · of · menA · arrayB · dayB · warC · storeC · had · forbade · in
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 |
|---|---|---|
| They pitched the tents and got them to their lodging there and | 13 | ·········/˘·· |
| then. | 1 | · |
| Strong grew their bands for thereabouts was found great store of | 13 | ······˘/····· |
| men. | 1 | · |
| Moreover all the outposts, which the Moors set in array, | 14 | ˘/˘··/······˘/ |
| Marched ever hither and thither in armour night and day. | 13 | ·//˘·/˘·/˘··· |
| And many are the outposts, and great that host of war. | 13 | ·/˘··/······· |
| From the Cid's men, of water have they cut off all the store. | 14 | ·····/˘······· |
| My lord the Cid's brave squadrons great lust to fight they had, | 13 | ·····/˘······ |
| But he who in good hour was born firmly the thing forbade. | 14 | ·····/··/˘··˘/ |
| For full three weeks together they hemmed the city in. | 13 | ····˘/˘···/˘· |
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