Volverán las obscuras golondrinas
En tu balcón sus nidos á colgar,
Y, otra vez, con el ala á sus cristales
Jugando llamarán.
[(p. 122, l. 24--p. 123, l. 2)][32]
Footnote 32:[ (return) ] These long lines are especially cantabile, as most are accented on the third and sixth syllables. Only one is accented on the fourth and eighth.
The 7-syllable line is commonly used in combination with those of eleven syllables (see above). In the seventeenth century, particularly, the 7-syllable line was used in anacreontics, artistic romances, quintillas, etc., in imitation of the Italian settenario, as in Villegas' Cantilena beginning:
Yo vi sobre un tomillo
Quejarse un pajarillo,
Viendo su nido amado,