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Types of Strophic Poems Explained

This document describes three types of strophic poems: the assonance series with monorhyme, the romance, and the sonnet. The assonance series with monorhyme consists of verses of major art with assonant rhyme. The romance has octosyllabic verses with assonant rhyme in the even lines. The sonnet has two quartets and two tercets with consonant rhyme following the scheme ABBA ABBA CDC DCD.

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Types of Strophic Poems Explained

This document describes three types of strophic poems: the assonance series with monorhyme, the romance, and the sonnet. The assonance series with monorhyme consists of verses of major art with assonant rhyme. The romance has octosyllabic verses with assonant rhyme in the even lines. The sonnet has two quartets and two tercets with consonant rhyme following the scheme ABBA ABBA CDC DCD.

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Types of strophic poems

—Serie asonantada monorrima: Número de versos indefinidos e irregulares de arte


major and assonant rhyme, very common in epic songs.
From his eyes so fiercely crying,
he was turning his head and picking them up;
I see open doors and uses without pipes.
empty alcoves without skins and without cloaks
and without falcons and without changed actors. (Anonymous: Song of My Cid)
Romance: A poem of free length made up of octosyllabic verses with rhyme
assonance in the even ones. The odd ones remain loose. It is the quintessential Spanish stanza.
Abenámar, Abenámar,
Moor from the Moorish district,

the day you were born


grandes señales había.
The sea was calm,
the moon was full,
I die that in such a sign I am born

One must not tell lies. [...] (Anonymous)

Sonnet: A poem formed by two quatrains and two tercets, which usually go
chained. The verses are usually hendecasyllabic and have consonant rhyme. Their
the structure is ABBA ABBA CDC DCD. Its origin is Italian and it triumphed in Spain thanks to
Garcilaso and Boscán in the 16th century, although the Marquis of Santillana had already used this.
stanza in the 15th century.

A sonnet is what Violante commands me to write.

in my life I have never been in such a bind,


fourteen verses say that it is a sonnet,
mocking and joking, the three go ahead.
I thought I wouldn’t find a consonant,
and I am in the middle of another quartet;
but if I see myself in the first tercet,
There is nothing in the quartets that frightens me.
Through the first tercet I am entering
and it still seems that I entered on the right foot,

Well, finally with this verse, I am finishing.

I am already in the second and still suspect.

that I am finishing the thirteen verses,


count if they are fourteen, and it's done. (Lope de Vega)

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