[[141-3]] de azul pintado, 'painted blue.'
142.—[[142-1]] Miraba... tranquilo el niño, 'the child was looking quietly at...'
[[142-8]] Ver que... is the subject of produjo.
[[142-13]] que: the second que is expletive. Do not translate.
FUSILES Y MUÑECAS
Juan de Dios Peza, b. 1852 in Mexico City,—a distinguished Mexican poet. His verse is written in evident haste and is often published without revision, but it has simplicity and spontaneity. Works: Leyendas de la ciudad de Méjico, Recuerdos y esperanzas, El arpa del amor, Flores del alma, Hogar y patria. Peza died in 1910.
143.—Fusiles y muñecas has 11 syllables, and 2 rhythmic stresses, to the line:
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Juan | y | Mar | got, | dos | án | ge | les | her | ma | nos, Que^em | be | lle | cen | mi^ho | gar | con | sus | ca | ri | ños, Se^en | tre | tie | nen | con | jue | gos | tan | hu | ma | nos Que | pa | re | cen | per | so | nas | des | de | ni | ños. |
The rhyme-scheme is a, b, a, b; etc.
[[143-3]] tan humanos, 'so like those of men and women.'