METRIC.

THE STANZAS
Name Diagram/explanation Example
PARED A Aa a Let me cry
6 at the seaside
Tercet Eleven-syllable verses 11 A No he de callar, por más que con el dedo,
of consonant rhyme A - 11 B either touching the mouth or the forehead
(Verse of A. If it is of minor art 11 Silence warns or threatens fear.
Italian origin it's called tercet. A
introduced in 11 B Shouldn't there be a brave spirit?
variant is the tercet
Spain in the century 11 C Should one always feel what one says?
chained. Its
XVI by Juan 11 B Should one never say what one feels?
the scheme is like this
Boscán
ABA BCB CDC...
SOLEÁ Octosyllabic verses with 8 a With its new little pitcher
assonance rhyme 8 - my gypsy sings
Popular verse 8 a new neighborhood path
Andalusian
8 a Come to my side
8 - what would I be without your warmth

8 a a little boat adrift

QUARTET Eleven-syllable verses 11 A You threw me a lemon, and it was so bitter,

ABBA 11 B with a hand so warm and so pure

11 B that did not undermine its architecture
11 A and I tasted its bitterness nevertheless
SERVENTESIO Verses of greater art, My childhood is memories of a courtyard in Seville,
normally 14B and a clear orchard where the lemon tree ripens;
eleven-syllable lines with rhyme 14A my youth, twenty years in the land of Castile;
ABAB 14B my story, some cases I don't want to remember;
QUATRAIN Octosyllabic verses with 8a Although I already like him/her well

Used since the 8b that's the same I advise him/her

consonant rhyme abab
17th century, Lope de
8a but take my advice
Vega the with anger, rage, and disdain
8b
recommended for
the dialogues of love
Octosyllabic verses with 8a It is the house a dovecote
quatrain consonant rhyme abba 8b and by the bed a jasmine bush
8am the doors wide open
8b and in the background the whole world
QUAD Alexandrine verses (14
WAY syllables) with a single 14A He was a simple poor cleric of the clergy.
Used during the rhyme 14A He said Mass every day for Saint Mary.
13th and 14th centuries I didn't know what else to say, tell her every day.
14A
by the poets of 14A More is known by use than by wisdom.
Master of Clerical Art
COPLA Verses of art 8 - When you pass by my side
8a and you don't say goodbye to me
minor, assonant rhyme
-a-a 8- nor the blessed souls
8a they suffer more than I do
SEGUIDILLA Heptasyllabic verses and 7- I will wash myself at the beach

pentasyllables. Scheme 5a dead from laughter

7–5a7-5a 7- well the sand in the fingers
5a it tickles me
QUINTET Verses of greater art
with consonant rhyme to a 11A Behind I left the eagles that watch
taste of the poet 11B With a bold eye the sun, has been left behind
They cannot have the same 11A the clouds that breathe lightning,
rhymes more than two verses 11B the thousand suns, which rotate through spaces,
followed Where mortal eyes have not reached.
It cannot end in
couplet
There can be none
loose
Quintet 8a Fallen leaves of the tree
Just like the quintet 8b wind toys are
but with octosyllables 8a the lost illusions
8a they are leaves, oh, detached
8b of the heart tree
LIRA 7a If you give me a drop
Introduced by Heptasyllabic verses and 11B could the sound be so, that in a moment
Garcilaso de la Vega eleven-syllable lines with rhyme 7a restrain the anger
in the XVI, it is called
consonant 7b of the spirited wind,
so because in his
11B and the fury of the sea and the movement
first verse
the word appears
lira
EIGHTH Series of eight verses. Why do you return to my memory,
According to the measure of sad memories of lost pleasure,
these can be: to increase anxiety and agony
from this desert wounded heart?
Octava real
Oh!, how I miss those hours of joy
Italian octave
only a sigh remained in the heart,
leaflet
and the tears that deny the eyes to pain
Tears are of bitterness that suffocate the soul.

Tenth O I dream that I am here

ESPINELA Eight-syllable verses whose loaded with these prisons,
the scheme is: and I dreamed that in another state
I found myself more flattering
It was invented by abbaaccddc
Vicente Espinel in What is life? A frenzy.
the XVI What is life? An illusion,
a shadow, a fiction
that the greatest good is small;
that all of life is a dream
And dreams are but dreams.
 A sonnet is what Violante commands me to create.

SONNET Stanza of 14 verses in my life I have never been in such a predicament,

Introduced by with consonant rhyme Fourteen verses say it is a sonnet,

Juan Boscán and mocking, mocking, there go the three in front
formed by the
Garcilaso de la Vega
it has been one of the
combination of two
quartets and two I thought I would not find a consonant,
more stanzas
and I am halfway through another quartet,
used tercets
but if I see myself in the first tercet,
there is nothing in the quadrants that frightens me

Through the first tercet I am entering,

and it still seems that I entered with the right foot,

Well, with this verse I am concluding.

I'm already on the second one, and I still suspect.

that I am finishing the thirteen verses,

count if they are fourteen, and it's done
ROMANCE Unlimited series of Green that I want you green.
eight-syllable verses with Green wind. Green branches.
They appeared in the assonant rhyme in the The boat on the sea
15th century and its origin and the horse in the mountain
even verses remaining
they seem to have been
free the odds With the shadow on the waist
the songs of
she dreams on her railing,
gesture.
green flesh, green hair,
When they are verses with eyes of cold silver.
of 6 syllables Green, how I want you green.
little romance; yes Under the gypsy moon,
they are 7, lament; the things are watching her
if it probes major art
and she cannot look at them
it's called romance
heroic.

CLUE GAME
Pay attention to the following clues and discover which stanzas we are talking about:

□ Gonzalo de Berceo is one of the authors of the mester de Clerecía.

□ The stanza introduced by J. Boscan in the 16th century is by Quevedo.
□ From Miguel Hernández we know his house and also that he liked to play at throwing himself.
lemons
□ Antonio Machado was born in Seville and lived in Castile.
□ Lope de Vega uses what he advises
□ José Zorrilla chose a stanza of 5 verses and major art
□ Calderón de la Barca dreamed that life is a dream
□ Lorca's poem is the greenest of all
□ Popular verses are anonymous because they have no known author.
□ Violante asked Lope de Vega for a sonnet.
□ José Espronceda chose the eight-verse stanza to write a very sad song and
one of five also for some verses of disappointment.