y Americana _
(15 Enero, 1911) contains lines of similar construction by
Don Rafael Torrome:

Al mirar su carita sonriente,
Tan dulce y tan buena,
Siempre observo que mi alma presiente,
Con duelo y con pena,
Que mas tarde este mundo inclemente
Trocara en sentimientos de hiena
Los puros afectos de su alma inocente.

Iriarte did not hesitate to write fables in these
10-syllable lines alone:

De sus hijos la torpe Aveturda
El pesado volar conocia...

And the romanticists of the nineteenth century used it not
infrequently:

Con inmovil, ironica mueca
Inclinaron formando en redor...

(Espronceda, _Est. de Sal._)

Del salon en el angulo obscuro,
De su dueno tal vez olvidada,
Silenciosa y cubierta de polvo,
Veiase el arpa.
(Becquer, _Rima_ VII)
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In the nineteenth century this line came to be popular in
patriotic songs which are sung by the multitude, while the
crash of the drum marks the rhythmic accents:

Entonemos festivos cantares,
Pues el dia feliz ha llegado,
Que del yugo servil aliviado
Goza ya el Espanol libertad.

(_La Constitucion_)

Al combate corred, Bayameses,
Que la patria os contempla orgullosa;
No temais una muerte gloriosa,
Que morir por la patria es vivir.

(Cuban national hymn, cf. p. 251)

The commoner form of verse with 11-syllable ternary lines
is that popularly called "_de gaita gallega_" (Men. Pel.,
_Ant._, V, p. cxcv; X, 141. Cf. also Mila, _op. cit._),
the assumption being that this verse is intimately related
to that type of popular Galician poetry known as the
_muineira_, which was sung to the music of the bagpipe.
These lines are typical of the "_endecasilabos de gaita
gallega_":

Tanto baile a la puerta del cura,
Tanto baile que me dio calentura;
Tanto baile a la puerta del horno,
Tanto baile que me dieron un bollo.[37]

[Footnote 34: Many Galician _muineiras_ have been
collected: cf. Mila, _op. cit._; Carolina Michaelis de
Vasconcellos, _Cancioneiro de Ajuda_, Vol. II, Halle,
1904; Jose Perez Ballesteros, _Cancionero popular
gallego_, Madrid, 1885.]
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Menendez y Pelayo (_Ant._ X, 141) gives, in his collection
of _Romances tradicionales de Asturias_, the following one
in ternary 11-syllable lines:

=La tentacion=

--iAy, probe Xuana de