=Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa=, b. 1750, d. 1791,--known chiefly for his
fables (_Fábulas literarias_).
=135.=--_Los dos conejos_ has 6 syllables to the verse-line, as follows:
_Por_ | _en_ | _tre^u_ | _nas_ | =ma= | _tas,_
_Se_ | _gui_ | _do_ | _de_ | =pe= | _rros,_
_(No_ | _di_ | _ré_ | _co_ | =rrí= | _a)_
_Vo_ | _la_ | _ba^un_ | _co_ | =ne= | _jo_.
Each verse-line contains one rhythmic stress. The rhyme is assonance,
the rhyme-vowels being _é-o_ in the 2d, 4th, 6th, etc., line throughout
the poem.
[135.9] =¿Qué ha de ser?= 'what must it be?'
[135.18] =como mi abuelo=, 'as sure as fate' (lit., 'like my
grandfather.' Cf. _Éste tan muerto está como mi abuelo_, in Samaniego's
_Los dos amigos y el oso_).
[135.20] =vistos los tengo==_los he visto_. Note that the participle
agrees with the object when the auxiliary is _tener_.
=136.=--[136.2] =Que=: do not translate. The expression is elliptic: _digo_ may
be understood (_digo que no..._).
[136.4] =que=: do not translate. After =que=, _son_ may be understood.