There is an inner rhythmic accent on the sixth syllable.

Iriarte also revived the older Alexandrine, but without

hiatus:

Cuando veo yo algunos,--que de otros escritores

Á la sombra se arriman,--y piensan ser autores...

Recent poets have revived the old Alexandrine.[33] Thus,

Rubén Darío uses it, even retaining the hiatus between the

half-lines; but instead of grouping the lines in quatrains

with monorime, as the old monks did, he uses assonance

in alternate lines, which is, so far as I know, without

precedent:

Es con voz de la Biblia--ó verso de Withman

Que habría que llegar--hasta ti, ¡cazador!

Primitivo y moderno,--sencillo y complicado,

Con un algo de Wáshington--y mucho de Nemrod...

(p. 211, ll. 1-4)

[Footnote 33: For their use of this line with ternary

movement, see p. lxxix.]

Lines of five or six syllables usually have a mingled

binary and ternary movement:

Una barquera

Hallé bizarra,

De pocos años

Y muchas gracias.

(N. Moratín)

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Salí á las diez

Á ver á Clori

(No lo acerté):

Horas menguadas

Debe de haber...

(L. Moratín)

Lines of 5+5 syllables (_versos asclepiadeos_) are

occasionally written:

Id en las alas--del raudo céfiro,

Humildes versos,--de las floridas

Vegas que diáfano--fecunda el Arlas,

Adonde lento--mi patrio río

Ve los alcázares--de Mantua excelsa.

(L. Moratín)

The Mexican poet Pesado used the same line in his

_Serenata_:

¡Oh tú que duermes--en casto lecho,

De sinsabores--ajeno el pecho,

Y á los encantos--de la hermosura

Unes las gracias--del corazón,

Deja el descanso,--doncella pura,

Y oye los ecos--de mi canción!

(P. 199, ll. 1-6)

The same measure appears in a patriotic song, _Himno de

Riego_:

En las cabezas--él proclamó

La suspirada--constitución,

Y enarbolando--marcial pendón,

Á los leales--acaudilló...[34]

[Footnote 34: It should be noted that these latter verses,

like most Spanish patriotic songs, are sung with ternary

movement, thus:

Èn las cabèzas--èl proclamò...]

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This 10-syllable measure is cantabile, and its phrases are

too short and too regular to make good recitative verse.

_Versos alcaicos_ differ from the _asclepiadeos_ in that

the former have, in a strophe, two lines of 5 + 5, one of

nine, and one of ten syllables. Thus, in these lines of

Victorio Giner (who probably introduced this strophe into

Spain in the second half of the nineteenth century):

Y si los nautas, cantando el piélago,

Con remos hieren y espumas alzan,

Se aduerme á los ecos sus penas

Y á los ecos su batel avanza.

Juan Luis Estelrich (_Poesías_, 1900) uses _versos

alcaicos_ with the first two lines of each strophe

_esdrújulo_, in imitation of Carducci:

Carmen, tu nombre trae al espíritu

Vuelo de aromas, susurro de árboles,

Los píos consorcios del cielo,

Y el cantar melodioso del Lacio.

(_Á Carmen Valera._)[35]

[Footnote 35: Cf. Mele, _op. cit._]

_Romances_ in lines of 6 + 6 (or 6 + 5) syllables occur

in popular Spanish verse, as in the Asturian _romance_ of

_Don Bueso_, beginning:

Camina don Bueso--mañanita fría

á tierra de moros--á buscar amiga...

(Men. Pel., _Ant._ X, 56: cf. also _Ant._ XI, 102)

This measure was also used in _endechas_, as in _Los

comendadores de Córdoba_ (fifteenth century), beginning:

¡Los comendadores,--por mi mal os vi!

Yo vi á vosotros,--vosotros á mí...

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The 9-syllable line was not well received in Spain, and it

has been little used. Iriarte, in his desire to vary the

metrical constructions of his fables, used it at least

once:

Sobre una mesa, cierto día,

Dando estaba conversación

Á un Abanico y á un Manguito

Un Paraguas ó Quitasol...

There is certainly no fixed inner rhythmic accent in these

lines. The fact seems to be that the 9-syllable line is

too long to be uttered comfortably in one phrase, or

breath-group, and it is too short to be regularly divided

into parts by cesura.

B. VERSE WITH TERNARY MOVEMENT

Verse with regular ternary movement may occur in lines of

any length, but it is commonly found only in lines of ten,

eleven or twelve syllables. Many ternary lines of five and

six syllables are found, but they are almost invariably

mingled with binary lines. This _rondel antiguo_ (Nebrija,

quoted by Men. Pel., _Ant._ V. 66) is ternary throughout,

it would seem:

Despide plazer

y pone tristura;

crece en querer

vuestra hermosura.

For mixed movements, see the _serranilla_ on p. 45, l. 9

f.

In lines with _regular_ ternary movement, properly

speaking, every primary stress receives a rhythmic accent,

and these accents are always separated by two page lxxi

atonic syllables, as in:

Yo no sè como bàilan aquì,

Que en mi tièrra no bàilan ansì...

Rarely one finds 6-syllable and 9-syllable lines with

regular ternary movement, and these are probably never of

popular origin. Thus:

Serèna la lùna

Alùmbra en el cièlo,

Domìna en el suèlo

Profùnda quietùd...

(Espronceda, _El reo de muerte_, II)

Y luègo el estrèpito crèce

Confùso y mezclàdo en un sòn,

Que rònco en las bòvedas hòndas

Tronàndo furiòso zumbò...

(Espronceda, _Estudiante de Salamanca_)

Formerly the Spanish 10-syllable line occurred usually in

combination with other lines, as in:

En la calle de Atòcha, ¡litòn!

Que vìve mi dàma;

Yo me llàmo Bartòlo, ¡litòn!

Litòque, vitòque, y[36] èlla Catànla.

--En la càlle del Sòrdo, ¡litòn!

Que vìve mi mòzo,

Pues á cuànto le pìdo, ¡litòn!

Litòque, vitòque, que sièmpre está sòrdo.

[Footnote 36: There is hiatus here.]

(Quiñones de Benavente, _Entremeses, bailes, loas y

sainetes_, quoted by Milá y Fontanals, _Obras completas_,

Vol. V, p. 324 f.)

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Calderón used it in the _Viña del Señor_:

Á la vìña, á la vìña, zagàles;

Zagàles, venìd, venìd á la vìña.

Á la vìña, á la vìña, zagàles,

Y vàya de jìra, de bùlla y de bàile.

Zagàles, venìd, venìd á la vìña,

Y vàya de bàile, de bùlla y de jìra.

A recent number of the _Ilustración Española y Americana _

(15 Enero, 1911) contains lines of similar construction by

Don Rafael Torromé:

Al miràr su carìta sonriènte,

Tan dùlce y tan buèna,

Siempre obsèrvo que mi àlma presiènte,

Con duèlo y con pèna,

Que más tàrde este mùndo inclemènte

Trocarà en sentimièntos de hièna

Los pùros afèctos de su àlma inocènte.

Iriarte did not hesitate to write fables in these

10-syllable lines alone:

De sus hìjos la tòrpe Avetùrda

El pesàdo volàr conocìa...

And the romanticists of the nineteenth century used it not

infrequently:

Con inmòvil, irònica muèca

Inclinàron formàndo en redòr...

(Espronceda, _Est. de Sal._)

Del salòn en el àngulo obscùro,

De su duèño tal vèz olvidàda,

Silenciòsa y cubièrta de pòlvo,

Veìase el àrpa.

(Bécquer, _Rima_ VII)

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In the nineteenth century this line came to be popular in

patriotic songs which are sung by the multitude, while the

crash of the drum marks the rhythmic accents:

Entonèmos festìvos cantàres,

Pues el dìa felìz ha llegàdo,

Que del yùgo servìl aliviàdo

Goza yà el Españòl libertàd.

(_La Constitución_)

Al combàte corrèd, Bayamèses,

Que la pàtria os contèmpla orgullòsa;

No temàis una muèrte gloriòsa,

Que morìr por la pàtria es vivìr.

(Cuban national hymn, cf. p. 251)

The commoner form of verse with 11-syllable ternary lines

is that popularly called "_de gaita gallega_" (Men. Pel.,

_Ant._, V, p. cxcv; X, 141. Cf. also Milá, _op. cit._),

the assumption being that this verse is intimately related

to that type of popular Galician poetry known as the

_muiñeira_, which was sung to the music of the bagpipe.

These lines are typical of the "_endecasílabos de gaita

gallega_":

Tànto bailè á la puèrta del cùra,

Tànto bailè que me diò calentùra;

Tànto bailè á la puèrta del hòrno,

Tànto bailè que me dièron un bòllo.[37]

[Footnote 34: Many Galician _muiñeiras_ have been

collected: cf. Milá, _op. cit._; Carolina Michaëlis de

Vasconcellos, _Cancioneiro de Ajuda_, Vol. II, Halle,

1904; José Pérez Ballesteros, _Cancionero popular

gallego_, Madrid, 1885.]

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Menéndez y Pelayo (_Ant._ X, 141) gives, in his collection

of _Romances tradicionales de Asturias_, the following one

in ternary 11-syllable lines:

=La tentación=

--¡Ày, probe Xuàna de cuèrpo garrido!

¡Ày, probe Xuàna de cuèrpo galàno!

¿Dònde le dèxas al tù buen amigo?

¿Dònde le dèxas al tù buen amàdo?

--¡Muèrto le dèxo á la orìlla del rìo,

muèrto le dèxo á la orìlla del vàdo!

--¿Cuànto me dàs, volverètelo vìvo?

¿Cuànto me dàs, volverètelo sàno?

--Dòyte las àrmas y dòyte el rocìno,

dòyte las àrmas y dòyte el cabàllo.

--No hè menestèr ni armàs ni rocìno,

no hè menestèr ni armàs ni cabàllo...

It should be noted that this poem has assonance of the

odd and of the even lines. Men. Pel. says of this popular

11-syllable _romance_ that «su aparición en la poesía

popular castellana es un fenómeno singular, aun en

Asturias misma, y hasta ahora no se ha presentado más

ejemplo que éste.» Note the apparent shifting of stress in

_armas_. Iriarte and L. Moratin did not scorn to use this

line.

Iriarte:

Cièrta criàda la càsa barrìa

Còn una escòba muy sùcia y muy vièja...

Moratin (in the chorus of _Padres del Limbo_):

Hùyan los àños con ràpido vuèlo;

Gòce la tièrra duràble consuèlo;

Mìre á los hòmbres piadòso el Señòr...

page lxxv

The 11-syllable line of ternary movement has had less

vogue in artistic verse than those of ten and twelve

syllables.[38]

[Footnote 38: In _Las hijas del Cid_ E. Marquina has used a

flexible 11-syllable ternary line beginning with either

[\-] - - [\-] or - [\-] - [\-]:

Sus nòmbres jùntos los llèvo en el alma,

Jùntos los guàrda tambièn mi memòria.

These are blank verses with occasional assonance.]

The Spanish ternary 12-syllable line was formerly used

chiefly in combination with lines of ten or eleven

syllables. Some examples of mingled 10-and 12-syllable

lines have already been given above. Another is:

Mancebìto, perdòne las hèmbras,

Que còmen y bèben y no tienen rèntas.

--Pues, mocìtas, maldìtas sean èllas,

Ó còsan ó làbren ó càiganse muèrtas.

A song of mingled 11-and 12-syllable lines begins thus:

Al pàsar la bàrca, me dìjo el barquèro:

Mòza bonìta no pàga dinero.[39]

[Footnote 39: Cf. Milá, _op. cit._ In singing _pasar_,

there is apparently a shifting of stress which is not

uncommon in songs.]

Efforts have been made from time to time to use the

ternary movements in erudite verse, but these, for the

most part, have proven futile. The most serious and the

most successful attempt appears in the use of the _copla

de arte mayor_ in the fifteenth century. The _copla

(metro, versos) de arte mayor_ consists of mingled 12-and

11-syllable lines arranged in strophes of eight lines,

each with consonantal rime according to some definite

scheme. The _arte mayor_ verse attained to its most

perfect form and its greatest popularity in page lxxvi

_El laberinto de la fortuna_ (1444?), by Juan de Mena, of

which the following is a strophe:

Amores me dieron corona de amores

porque mi nombre por más bocas ande;

entonçes no era mi mal menos grande,

quando me dauan plazer sus dolores;

vençen el seso sus dulçes errores,

mas non duran sienpre, segund luego plazen;

pues me fizieron del mal que vos fazen,

sabed al amor desamar, amadores.

(Strophe 106)

The old _arte mayor_ verse has these distinguishing

characteristics:

The line is divided into hemistichs, each of which may

have four, five or six syllables, thus:

(1) (-) - - - [/-] (-) | (-) - - - [/-] (-),

except that the final syllable of the first hemistich

and the initial syllable of the second may not both be

lacking. These arrangements may also occur (the third is

rare):

(2) (-) - - - [/-] - - | - - - [/-] (-)

(3) (-) - - - [/-] | - - - - - [/-] (-).

Examples of types:

(1) Las grandes fazañas | de nuestros mayores... (Str. 4)

Vayan de gente | sabidos en gente... (Str. 3)

Reconocerán | maguer que feroce... (Str. 274)

Assí que qualquiera | cuerpo ya muerto... (Str. 244)

Cuya virtud | maguer que reclama...

Sufren que passen | males e viçios... (Str. 232)

(2) E ví á Pitágoras | que defendía... (Str. 118)

Bien como médico | mucho famoso... (Str. 178)

(3) Quando el señor | es en neçessidad... (Str. 258)

page lxxvii

The initial unstressed syllable of the first hemistich is

lacking in approximately one-third of the lines of the

_Laberinto_. These lines resemble the 11-syllable _gaita

gallega_ verse, and the others resemble the popular

Galician 12-syllable ternary line, for in both the final

unstressed syllable of the first hemistich may fall,[40]

which seems to indicate that the appearance of the _arte

mayor_ verse in Castilian was due to Galician influence.

[Footnote 40: Cf. these Galician _muiñeiras_, cited by Milá

y Fontanals (_Romanía_, VI, p. 47 f.):

Càndo te vèxo | na bèira do rìo,

Quèda o meu còrpo | tembràndo de frìo;

Càndo te vèxo | d'o mònte n'altùra,

A tòdo o mon córpo | lle dà calentùra.

Ìsca d'ahì | galìña maldìta,

Ìsca d'ahì | non me màte la pìta;

Ìsca d'ahì | galìña ladròna,

Ìsca d'ahì | pra càs de tua dòna.]

Again, as in many Galician songs of this type, the ternary

movement of the old _arte mayor_ verse is not strictly

regular. Approximately nine-tenths of the lines in the

_Laberinto_ may be read with regular ternary movement:

(-) [/-] - - [/-] (-) | (-) [/-] - - [/-] (-),

by giving a rhythmic accent to a syllable with secondary

stress or to a middle syllable in a group of atonics, in a

not inconsiderable number of lines, as in:

Pòr las altùras, | collàdos y cèrros...

Assì que tu ères | la gòvernadòra...

In the remaining lines the commonest movement is:

(-) - [/-] - [/-] (-) | (-) - [/-] - [/-] (-),

as in:

Aquel claro padre, aquel dulce fuente... page lxxviii

In the second half of the sixteenth century and in the

seventeenth century, the _arte mayor_ verse was out of

fashion, although it appeared occasionally, as in these

lines of Lope de Vega (a variety of the Sapphic strophe),

with inner rime:

Amor poderoso en cielo y en tierra,

dulcísima guerra de nuestros sentidos,

¡oh, cuántos perdidos con vida inquiëta

tu imperio sujeta!

(From first act of _Dorotea_)

In the nineteenth century it was restored to favor by

the romanticists.[41] Good examples are: Espronceda,

_El templario_; Avellaneda, _Las siete palabras_; and

Zorrilla, _Á un torreón_ (part). Some writers used it even

in the drama (cf. Gil y Zárate, _Guzmán el bueno_). The

modern _arte mayor_ verse is written in 12-syllable lines,

usually with regular ternary movement. Thus:

¡Oh Antìlla dichòsa! | ¿qué màgicos sònes,

Qué lùz inefàble, | qué extràña alegrìa,

Del cièlo destièrran los nègros crespònes,

Prestàndo á esta nòche | la pòmpa del dìa?

¿Por qué tan ufàna, | tan bèlla la lùna

Con fàz refulgènte | comiènza su gìro,

Y no hày leve sòmbra | que crùce importùna

Su tròno esmaltàdo | de plàta y zafìro?

(Avellaneda, _Serenata de Cuba_)

[Footnote 41: Iriarte, of course, had written a fable or

two in _arte mayor_ verse. Cf. _Fábula_ XXXIX.]

page lxxix

Soldàdos, la Pàtria | nos llàma á la lìd;

Jurèmos por èlla | vencèr ó morìr;

Serènos, alègres, | valièntes, osàdos,

Cantèmos, soldàdos, | el hìmno á la lìd:

Ya nuèstros acèntos | el òrbe se admìre,

Y en nòsotros[42] mìre | los hìjos del Cìd;

Ya nuèstros acèntos | el òrbe se admìre,

Y en nòsotros mìre | los hìjos del Cìd.

(_Himno de Riego_: cf. p. 242)

[Footnote 42: Note in _nosotros_ the shifting of stress,

which the musical notation indicates clearly.]

Lines of fourteen and fifteen syllables with ternary

movement are never popular, and in artistic verse they

are exceedingly rare. Avellaneda used these measures in

_Soledad del alma_:

Sàle la auròra risuèña, de flòres vestìda,

Dàndole al cièlo y al càmpo variàdo colòr;

Tòdo se anìma sintièndo brotàr nueva vìda,

Càntan las àves, y el àura suspìra de amòr.

Huyèron velòces--cual nùbes que el viènto arrebàta--

Los brèves momèntos de dìcha que el cièlo me diò...

¿Por què mi existència, ya inùtil, su cùrso dilàta,

Si el tèrmino ansiàdo á su espàlda perdìdo dejò?

Some recent poets have attempted to write ternary

Alexandrine verse. Thus, the Peruvian poet, José S.

Chocano (1867-):

Los Estados Unidos, como argolla de bronce,

contra un clavo sujetan de la América un pie;

y la América debe, si pretende ser libre,

imitarles primero, é igualarles después.

page lxxx

Imitemos ¡oh Musa! las crujientes estrofas

que en el Norte se arrastran con la gracia de un tren,

y que giren las rimas como ruedas veloces

y que caigan los versos como varas de riel.

(_La epopeya del Pacífico_)

STROPHES

There are certain conventional combinations of line and

rime known by special names. Those used in modern Spanish

may best be considered under the heads (I) Assonance, (II)

Consonantal Rime, and (III) No Rime.

I. (1) The _romance_ is the most characteristic and

national of all Spanish meters. The proper _romance_

consists of 8-syllable lines with assonance in alternate

lines[43] (cf. pp. 1-8, 42, etc.). The structure of the

_romance_ line has already been treated (p. lxi). In the

old _romances_ there was no division into stanzas, but

poets from the end of the sixteenth century on regularly

employ a pause after every fourth line, thereby creating

a series of quatrains (pp. 42, 60, etc.), except in the

drama (p. 19).

[Footnote 43: Historically, of i6-syllable lines, all

assonating.]

(2) Alternate assonance may be employed with lines of

any length. With 11-syllable lines the verse is called

_romance heroico_ or _real_. Lines of seven syllables make

_versos anacreónticos_. The name _endecha_ is given to

some assonated verse of either six (p. 124) or seven

syllables. When the first three lines of a stanza are

of seven syllables and the last of eleven, the verse is

called _endecha real_. For examples of alternate assonance

in lines of various lengths, see pp. 122 (2 examples),

123, 137, 160, 177.

An _estribillo_, or refrain, may be used in any assonating

verse (p. 45).

page lxxxi

(3) The use of alternate assonance in lines of fourteen

syllables (pp. 211, 212) is a none too happy device of the

author.

(4) The _seguidilla_ is usually a stanza of seven lines of

seven and five syllables in length, in this order: 7, 5,

7, 5; 5, 7, 5. There is usually a pause after the fourth

line; lines 2 and 4 have one assonance and lines 5 and 7

another. The assonances change from one stanza to another.

See pp. 112 and 120. In some _seguidillas_ the stanzas

consist only of the first four lines described.

II. The native Spanish strophes are usually combinations

of 8-syllable or shorter lines. The 11-syllable line,

itself an importation from Italy, brought with it many

well-known Italian strophes. In none of the pure Italian

forms are lines ending in _agudos_ or _esdrújulos_

permissible.

(1) The _redondilla mayor_ consists of four 8-syllable

lines with the rime-scheme _abba_ (pp. 149, 167), or,

less commonly, _abab_ (p. 136). It is a common and

characteristic Spanish meter. The _redondilla menor_

has the same form expressed in lines of less than eight

syllables. The same rime-schemes are found with lines of

seven or of eleven (pp. 117, 207) syllables, and with

combinations of eleven and seven (p. 134), or eleven and

five (p. 86) syllables; but they are not properly called

_redondillas_.

(2) The _quintilla_ is a 5-line strophe, usually of

8-syllable lines. Only two rimes are used in one stanza,

and not more than two lines having the same rime should

stand together (pp. 26, 114). _Quintillas_ are sometimes

written with lines of other lengths. Examples with eleven

and seven syllables are found on pp. 128, 133 and 148. The

stanza used in _Vida retirada_ (p. 9) is termed _lira_:

cf. _Introduction_, p. xxiii.

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(3) The _décima_ (or _espinela_) is a 10-line strophe

of 8-syllable lines which may be considered as two

_quintillas_; but there should be a pause after the

fourth line, and the rime-scheme is usually as follows:

_abbaaccddc_.

(4) The _arte mayor_ line has already been described (p.

lxxv). The _copla de arte mayor_ is a stanza of eight such

lines, usually having the rime-scheme _abbaacca_.

(5) The _octava rima_ (Ital. _ottava rima_) is an Italian

form. Each stanza has eight 11-syllable lines with the

rime-scheme _abababcc_. Examples are found of octaves

employing short lines. A variety of the _octava rima_ is

the _octava bermudina_ with the rime-scheme _abbcdeec_,

the lines in _c_ ending in _agudos_.

(6) The _soneto_ (sonnet) is formed of fourteen

11-syllable lines. In the Siglo de Oro it appears as

a much stricter form than the English sonnet of the

corresponding period. The quatrains have the regular

construction _abba_, and the tiercets almost always follow

one of two types: either _cde, cde,_ or _cdcdcd_. See pp.

14, 18, 148, etc.

(7) _Tercetos_ (Italian _terza rima_), the verse used by

Dante in the _Divina Commedia_, are formed of 11-syllable

lines in groups of three, with the rime-scheme _aba, bcb,

cdc_, etc., ending _yzyz_. See p. 15.

(8) The term _canción_, which means any lyrical

composition, is also applied specifically to a verse

form in which the poet invents a typical strophe, with a

certain length of line and order of rimes, and adheres to

this type of stanza throughout the whole poem. The lines

are of eleven and seven syllables,--the Italian structure.

Of such nature are the poems on pp. 8, 20, 71, 137

(bottom), 174, 190.

The same procedure is employed with lines of any length, page lxxxiii

but the poem is not then called _canción_.

For strophes in 10-syllable lines, see p. 199; in

8-syllable lines, pp. 16, 51, 83, 151; in 7-syllables, p.

202.

(9) The _silva_ is a free composition of 11-and 7-syllable

lines. Most of the lines rime, but without any fixed

order, and lines are often left unrimed. See pp. 46, 54,

152, 214 (bottom), etc. A similar freely riming poem in

lines of seven syllables is Villegas' _Cantilena_ (p. 17).

(10) The Asclepiadean verse (p. lxviii) and the Sapphic

(p. lxiv) and Alcaic (p. lxix) strophes have already been

described. These may be rimed, or in blank verse.

(11) Numerous conventional names are given to poems for

some other characteristic than their metrical structure.

Thus a _glosa_ (gloss) is a poem "beginning with a text, a

line of which enters into each of the stanzas expounding

it." A _letra_ may be a short gloss. The name _letrilla_

is applied sometimes to a little poem in short lines which

may be set to music (p. 9), and sometimes to a strophic

poem with a refrain (p. 16). A _madrigal_ is a short

_silva_ upon a light topic, an expanded conceit. The term

_cantilena_ is given to any short piece of verse intended

to be set to music (p. 17). _Serranillas_, in which is

described the meeting of a gentleman with a rustic maiden,

are famous for the examples written by Juan Ruiz and the

Marquis of Santillana. A _villancico_ is a popular poem

with a refrain, usually dealing with an episode celebrated

in a church festival (p. 13).

III. _Versos sueltos, libres_ or _blancos_ (blank verse)

are formed, as in English, of 11-syllable lines, with

occasionally a shorter line thrown in. There is no rime,

but sometimes a couplet may mark the close of an idea. See

pp. 38 and 144, and cf. also p. lx.

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