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Quintilla (poetry)
A ''quintilla'' is a Spanish language, Spanish stanza of five octosyllabic lines. It employs two rhymes and no three consecutive lines may rhyme nor may it end in a couplet. The most common scheme is ''abaab'', but ''abbab'', ''aabab'', ''ababa'' and ''aabba'' are also permitted. It is similar to the four-line ''redondilla'' but is distinct from the ''quintilla real'', which contains five hendecasyllabic lines.Chris Baldick (ed.)"Quintilla" ''The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms'' 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015). Popular in the 15th century, as a standalone poem the ''quintilla'' only evolved in the 16th century from the separation of the parts of the nine- or ten-line ''Copla (meter), copla de arte menor''. It originally considered a type of ''redondilla''. The forms that begin with a couplet (''aabba'' and ''aabab'') were not popular on their own but do appear as the second half of the ''copla real''. The famous poem "Fiesta de toros en Madrid" by Nicolás Fernández de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
