Medieval Spanish Literature: Metrics, Genres, and Church Influence
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Metric: Castilian Lyric
In traditional lyric poems, minor art of different sizes, assonance, and rhyme predominate. Carols, composed of a chorus and verse, encompass two or three verses that are repeated. It is a poem of art minor verses, usually with assonance rhyme.
Jarcha
Most jarchas have four verses, with a widespread tendency to rhyme even verses only (although there is some cross-rhyme and common even rhyme). The next most frequent are two verses, and trísticos also abound, usually monorhythmic, but also of two rhymes. The most frequent verse types are hexasyllabic, octosyllabic, and heptasyllabic. The rhyme is generally consonant, though often imperfect.
Epic: Song of My Cid
Each verse is divided into two hemistiches by a caesura. Both... Continue reading "Medieval Spanish Literature: Metrics, Genres, and Church Influence" »