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redondilla
[ Spanish re-dawn-dee-lyah ]
noun
- a Spanish verse form in which each stanza consists of four lines, each with eight syllables, and a rhyme scheme abba.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of redondilla1
Example Sentences
He hath good skill with the lute, and he has in his memory a thousand redondillas, with which he may divert the leisure of my lord.
It contains, among other things, eight comedies, written in the native redondillas; which continue to be regarded as the suitable measure for the drama.
He possessed, however, the soul of a poet; and when he abandons himself to his native redondillas, delivers his sentiments with a sweetness and grace inimitable.
Sarmiento traces it to the hexameter of the ancient Romans, which may be bisected into something analogous to the redondillas.
Conde has given a translation of certain Spanish-Arabian poems, in the measure of the original, from which it is evident, that the hemistich of an Arabian verse corresponds perfectly with the redondilla.
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