THE 11 MOST PROMINENT METRIC EXAMPLES - LITERATURE - 2025

The examples of metric poetry include verses, rhymes and stanzas. The meter is a set of formal regularities that characterize verse poetry and rhythmic prose.

In Spanish metrics, a verse is made up of a certain number of syllables and a form of distribution of accents.

There are also other types of metrics, such as Germanic and Scandinavian, Hebraic, Japanese or Greco-Latin.

The verses of minor art contain from two to nine syllables, and those of major art have ten to sixteen syllables.

There are some poetic licenses that are taken into account to measure the syllables of a verse, such as the sinalefa, the hiatus, the umlaut, the syneresis and the last letter of the last syllable of the verse.

Examples of metric in verse

1- Finished in a sharp word

In these cases one more syllable is counted.

Example

Foolish men you accuse (8)

to the woman without reason (8)

without seeing that you are the occasion (8)

of the same thing that you blame (8)

2- Finished in a word esdrújula

When this is the case, one syllable less is counted.

Example

Today, because you have come to visit me, (11)

I remember that there is a world, and that there are tears (11)

Blessed are you, under the May sun, (11)

my sadness, bright and warm. (eleven)

3- Sinalefa

The last vowel of one syllable is joined with the first of the next

Example

You and me and Sancho and the boy from Vallecas (11)

4- When there is a rhythmic accent

This rhythmic accent prevents a synalepha from forming.

Example

Seven counts demand her, (8)

three dukes of Lombardy; (8)

I despised all of them, (8)

so much is its freshness. (8)

5- Dieresis

When pronouncing a diphthong in two times, one more syllable is counted. This is called the umlaut.

Example

"Süave fruit tree" (8). (It is marked with an umlaut)

6- Syneresis

The opposite case is syneresis: two vowels in hiatus are pronounced as a single syllable.

Example

Not from the sea of ​​theogonic blood and foam. (14)

Examples of metrics in rhymes

7- In assonance rhymes

In the assonance or imperfect rhyme, only the vowels from the last stressed vowel coincide.

Example

There are no more buckles or swords, he only remembers

from Cassandra, there is no love

more than the earl and the duchess.

8- In consonant rhymes

In the consonant or perfect rhyme the vowels and consonants coincide from the last stressed vowel.

Example

Sing bird in the bower

jungle to his love, that on the green ground

the hunter has not seen that with vigilance

is listening to him, the armed bully.

Examples of metrics in stanzas

There are three kinds of stanzas, according to Garcilaso de la Vega's study: the lira, the real eighth and the tenth.

9- The lyre

The lyre is the combination of five verses, the first, third and fourth syllables of seven syllables, and the other two hendecasyllables. The rhymes occur between the first and the third, and the second with the fourth and fifth.

Example

If my low lira

so much could he be that in a moment

anger appease

from the spirited wind

and the fury of the sea and movement.

10- The real eighth

The royal eighth is of Italian origin. There are eight hendecasyllable verses with three consonant rhymes, in which the first six rhyme alternately with the first two. The last two rhyme with each other.

Example

No ladies, love, no niceties

of gentlemen singing in love, nor the samples, gifts and tenderness

of loving affection and care, plus the courage, the deeds, the feats, of those struggling Spaniards, that the neck of Arauco has not been tamed, they put a hard yoke with the sword.

11- The tenth

The tenth is a stanza composed of ten eight-syllable lines.

Example

To a honeycomb of rich honey

two thousand flies came

who died for their sweet tooth

legs prey on it.

Another fly on a cake

buried his treat.

Thus, while it is examined, human hearts

they perish in prisons

of the vice that dominates them.

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