A Spanish Anthology / A Collection of Lyrics from the Thirteenth Century Down to the Present Time

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For the purposes of singing, the third syllable should be stressed as well as the seventh.

Compositions in six-syllabled verses, with the accent on the fifth syllable (hexasyllables), may have the trochaic xxxiv metre, but are likely to intermingle the trochees with amphibrachs; e.g., Espronceda:

Músicas lejànas;	Trochees.
De enlutado pàrche
Redòble monótono;	Amphibrachs.
Cercàno huracán.

Four-syllabled (tetrasyllabic) trochaic lines may accent the first and third syllables, but only the accent on the third syllable is requisite; Iriarte:

A una mòna

Muy taimàda

Dìjo un día

Cièrta urràca.

When it alternates with other longer verses, the four-syllabled trochaic is called the verso quebrado.

Iambics.—The longest iambic verse is the alexandrine of the French type. It has thirteen syllables and a central cæsura dividing it into hemistichs. The first hemistich may end in a stressed vowel or have an unaccented vowel after the stress, but in the latter case synalœpha must join the unaccented vowel to the following hemistich; Iriarte: