décima

English translation: decima (stanza of eight octosyllabic lines)

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Spanish term or phrase:décima
English translation:decima (stanza of eight octosyllabic lines)
Entered by: Hazel Whiteley

10:38 Feb 7, 2005
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Poetry
Spanish term or phrase: décima
Definición:

Combinación métrica de diez versos octosílabos, de los cuales, por regla general, rima el primero con el cuarto y el quinto; el segundo, con el tercero; el sexto, con el séptimo y el último, y el octavo, con el noveno. Admite punto final o dos puntos después del cuarto verso, y no los admite después del quinto

¿Alguien sabe cómo es esto en inglés?

Gracias
Hazel Whiteley
Local time: 04:08
Alexandrine / Octava Rima
Explanation:
English´s metric poetry is quite different from Spanish´s.
Good Luck!
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4stanza of ten octosyllabic lines
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décima
Alexandrine / Octava Rima


Explanation:
English´s metric poetry is quite different from Spanish´s.
Good Luck!


    Reference: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~narcisse/webwrite/project/scandef...
María Roberto (X)
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décima
stanza of ten octosyllabic lines


Explanation:
Hazel,
Esto es lo que encontré en uno de mis diccionarios para 'décima'

Y esto es lo que dice el Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary sobre stanza:

STANZA, n. Pros.
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.

Suerte,
Pamela


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Pamela Peralta
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