THE VERSE AND THE METRIC

The poems or poetic texts are compositions that are written in verse.
Each line of the poem is a verse.
Measuring a verse consists of counting the number of syllables it has.

for-the-green-garden _ 8 syllables.

To measure the verses, you must take into account these three things:

 When a word ends in a vowel and the next word also starts with
vocal, they form a single syllable. This phenomenon is known as sinalefa.

Example: My-verse is-a-hurt deer 8 syllables.

 If the verse ends in an acute word, an additional syllable is counted.

 If the verse ends in a proparoxytone word, one syllable less is counted.

Example:

A star in the sky of O - ri - on10 + 1 = 11 (sharp

The electric space 9 - 1 = 8

VERSIONS OF MAJOR ART AND MINOR ART

 When the verses have less than 8 syllables, they are minor art verses.

 When the verses measure more than 8 syllables they are called major art verses.

Verses are named depending on the number of syllables they have:

VERSICLES OF MINOR ART VERSICLES OF GREATER ART

Bisyllabic 2 syllables Enneasyllables 9 syllables
Trisyllabic 3 syllables Decasyllables 10 syllables
Tetrasyllables 4 syllables Endecasyllabics 11 syllables
Pentasyllabics 5 syllables Dodecasyllables 12 syllables
Hexasyllables 6 syllables Thirteen-syllable 13 syllables
Heptasyllables 7 syllables Alejandrinos 14 syllables
Octosyllabic 8 syllables

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 1. Answer these questions about poetic texts and meter:

What is a verse?

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What does measuring a verse consist of?

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What are verses of minor art?

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What are verses of greater art?

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Complete: What three things should be considered when measuring verses?

a) When a word ends in a vowel and the next word starts

by also vowel, form the same This phenomenon is _

know how _ _.

b) If the verse ends in the word _______________ , one more syllable is counted.

c) If the verse ends in a proparoxytone word, one syllable is counted_________ _.

3. Connect with arrows the verses that receive a name depending on the number of
syllables that have:

Minor Art MAJOR ART

Bisyllables 4 syllables Enneasyllables 13 syllables

Trisyllabic 2 syllables Decasyllables 9 syllables
Tetrameters 7 syllables Eleven-syllable lines 14 syllables
Pentasyllables 8 syllables Dodecasyllables 10 syllables
Hexasyllables 5 syllables Thirteen-syllable 11 syllables
Heptasyllables 6 syllables Alejandrinos 12 syllables
Octosyllables 3 syllables

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  The provided text does not contain a translatable component. It asks for an analysis, which cannot be translated.
Verse Number of syllables Major or minor art Name of the verse
Amparo

How alone you are in your house,

dressed in white

hey the wonderful

fountains from your yard

and the weak yellow trill

of the canary.

In the afternoon you see it tremble

the cypress trees with the birds,

while you slowly embroider

lyrics about the hemp canvas

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 THE RHYME
LaryMae is the total or partial repetition of sounds in two or more verses after the last one.
stressed vowel.

Example: 1st Leave, child, the salt flat. _ a 2º

From the bottom and raise me to the sky _ b
3rd of the fish and on your
_ b4ºhook,
my little gardener of the sea. _ a

In this poem by Rafael Alberti, they rhyme:

the 1st with the 4th verse (end in -ar) the
2nd with the 3rd verse (end in -elo)

The verses that rhyme between themselves are named with the letters of the alphabet a, b, c (if they are
of minor art) … A, B, C… (if they are of major art).
The verses that do not rhyme with any other in the poem are called free verse and are marked.
con–

The verses can be of two classes:

1. Consonant rhyme: when the rhyme matches all the sounds (consonants and
vowels).
Example: suitcase - jacket - t-shirt

2. Assonance rhyme: when only the vowels coincide in the rhyme.

house - wing - face comb - air (or airflow)

 Measure the verses of the poem by Antonio Machado and indicate the rhymes (a,b,
A, B) and whether it is assonant or consonant:

Last night while I was sleeping 8a

I dreamed, blessed illusion! 8b

that a fountain flowed

inside my heart.

It has rhyme assonant b) consonant

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Molinero is my lover _

he/she has a mill

under the green pines

near the river

It has rhyme a) assonance b) consonant

About the olive grove

the owl was seen

fly and fly.

It has rhyme assonance b) consonant

 Write three words that rhyme with these words in consonant rhyme:

Bell: , ,

Suitcase: , ,

Sail: , ,

Lighter: , ,

 Write three words that rhyme with these words in assonant rhyme:

Hat , ,

Lamp: , , Clock: ,

, Barca ,

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 METRIC ANALYSIS

Where the girls sing in a circle,

in the gardens of the lemon grove, on
the source, black bumblebee goes by
flying, it vibrates while flying.

His grandfather's rough growl was heard.

between two clear voices sounding,
superfluous note for cello
in the lemon orchard.

Between the four white walls,

when a hand closed the balcony,
through the salt rooms if you can
the sound of its staff ring.

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Change on the ceiling, still, asleep?
the dark note of anguish is
and in the green-flowered meadow of
a dream of a child flying goes...
ANTONIO MACHADO

Measure the verses.

2. Analyze the rhyme.
3. How many verses does it have? How are they grouped?

4. How are the verses? A) Of major art b) Of minor art

5. What name do the verses receive based on the number of syllables they have?

6. What is the metric scheme?

7. How is the rhyme? A) Assonant B) Consonant

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 METRIC EXERCISES

Measure the verses. Identify the rhyme.

1- Black jack, big moon,

and olives in my saddlebag.
Even if I know the paths
I will never arrive in Córdoba.

Federico García Lorca

2- It is not yet buried;

the widow wants to get married:
Wretched is the one who dies
if paradise doesn't go!

Anonymous

3- Everything is wealth and powerful tastes,

Well, the courtiers are not right,
because now they complain about addicts.

Diego de Torres Villarroel

4- They say that I should get married:

I don't want a husband, no.

Gil Vicente.

5- Oh miserable and laborious life

subjected to so many misadventures!
¡ Prosperity human y
suspicious since there was never any
none without a fall!
What could be so sweet and so tasty that
Isn't it bitter and flavorless after all?
There is no taste, there is no pleasure without its discount,
What leaves pleasure is torment.

Alonso de Ercilla
6- You look like flowers of the sea,
candles that you go out now,
at the time the sun sets
and the sea is pink.

7- Ebro, Miño, Duero,Tajo,

Guadiana and Guadalquivir,
rivers of Spain, what a job
to go to the sea to die!

Miguel de Unamuno

8- If my voice were to die on land,

take her to sea level
and leave her on the shore.

Rafael Alberti

9- Oh my cheerful sierra
about the hills
some white little houses
like pigeons.

Antonio Fernández Grilo

10- Segovia transparent to its great sorrow

behind the Aqueduct, thoughtful,
and in the deep flow of the living water
the mortal Eresma becomes disheartened.

Leopoldo Panero

11- Bishopric city, Murcia prelate;

a labyrinth in which you lose yourself; today
my gaze goes across your bars, down
the April of your green blinds.

Miguel Hernández
12- How quietly you sleep,
towers of the Alhambra, a
dream of long centuries by
your walls slide.
You sleep dreaming of death
and death is far away.
Wake up, they are coming closer.
the fresh lights of dawn.

Angel Ganivet

13- With ten cannons by

band, full sail ahead, to
every sail, does not cut the sea,
but fly a sailboat
schooner.
They call it a pirate ship,
his bravery, the feared, in
all known sea
from one border to another.

José de Espronceda

14- Through these pleasant jungles

to the sound of melodious streams
the birds sing in choruses of
jealousy and love are the sorrows.

15- Yono fears the evils,

I fear dangers.
of a polka dot robe.
Give me the hand,
sister, I can't
more,
what fatigue my body bears
he goes to the hospital.

16-You have a tiny waist...

that I measured it yesterday evening,

with half a palm of money

I made fourteen laps.
...and I had a little bit left over