l. 19)
To|da, to|da e|res | per|fec|ta.
(p. 44, l. 22)

If the vowels are the same, they usually combine into one:

Del | sol | en | la al|ta | cum|bre
(p. 49, l. 13)
Tem|blar | en | tor|no | de el|: un | ar|co in|men|so...
(p. 180, l. 10)

(5) FINAL SYLLABLES

In estimating the number of syllables in a Spanish
verse-line one final unstressed syllable after the last
stressed syllable is counted whether it be present or not;
or, if there be two unstressed syllables at the end of
the line, only one is counted.[21] Thus the following are
considered 8-syllable lines although, in fact, one line
has nine syllables and another has only seven:

La | sal|pi|ca | con | es|com|bros
De | cas|ti|llos | y | de al|ca|za|res...
Pa|ra | vol|ver | a | bro|tar...

[Footnote 21: In Spanish, a word stressed on the final
syllable is called _agudo_; a word with one syllable after
the stress is called _grave_ or _llano_; one with two
syllables after the stress, _esdrujulo: farol, pluma,
pajaro_.]
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This system of counting syllables obtains in Spanish
because there is one and only one unstressed syllable at
the end of most verse-lines. It would, perhaps, be more
logical to stop the count with the last stressed syllable,
as the French do. For instance, a Spanish 11-syllable
line would be called a "feminine" 10-syllable line by the
French; but the French language has only one vowel (_e_)
that may occur in a final unstressed syllable, while in
Spanish there are several (_a, e, o,_ rarely _i, u_).

RIME

Spanish poetry may be in rimed verse or in blank verse.
(1) Rimed verse may have "consonance," in which there is
rime of the last stressed vowel and of any consonants and
vowels that may follow in the line, as in:

En las presas
Yo divido
Lo cogido
Por igual:
Solo quiero
Por riqueza
La belleza
Sin rival.
(p. 75, ll. 5-12)

Madre mia, yo soy nina;
No se enfade, no me rina,
Si fiada en su prudencia
Desahogo mi conciencia,
(p. 51, ll. 10-13)

iCuan solitaria la nacion que un dia
Poblara inmensa gente!
iLa nacion cuyo imperio se extendia
Del ocaso al oriente!
(p. 76, ll. 19-22)
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iOh tu, que duermes en casto l=echo=,
De sinsabores ajeno el p=echo=,
Y a los encantos de la hermos=ura=
Unes las grac