¿Qué es poesía? dices mientras clavas
En mi pupila tu pupila azul;
¿Qué es poesía? ¿Y tú me lo preguntas?
Poesía ... eres tú.[2]
[Footnote 1: We have here three hendecasyllabic verses of both
classes, followed by a heptasyllabic. Notice the hiatus in the
1st, 3d, and 4th verses. The 2d and 4th are _agudos_ and
assonanced.]
[Footnote 2: This thought is developed in the first of Becquer's
_Cartas literarias á una mujer._]