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Mar 9, 2011 11:55
13 yrs ago
Spanish term

lira

Homework / test Spanish to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature texto de valle inclan sonata de otoño
yo tuve que enseñarle toda la lira: verso por verso, todo el rosario de sonetos de Pedro Aretino
me gustaria saber como traducir lira
gracias
Proposed translations (English)
5 +3 lira

Proposed translations

+3
5 mins

lira

A Spanish style of poetry; it has no direct equivalent.

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Note added at 7 mins (2011-03-09 12:02:38 GMT)
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5. Lira: a stanza of 5 lines, with a combination of hendecasyllables and heptasyllables, aBabB (lower case = heptasyllable, upper case = hendecasyllable). The name “lira” comes from a poem by Garcilaso, but it is really a form taken from the Italian poet Bernardo Tasso, whom Garcilaso knew in Naples. Tasso sought to reproduce the metres of the classical poet, Horace. Garcilaso wrote only one lira, but it was the favourite stanza form of Fray Luis de León and San Juan de la Cruz (St John of the Cross).


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Note added at 7 mins (2011-03-09 12:03:07 GMT)
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http://www.spainthenandnow.com/spanish-literature/garcilaso-...
Peer comment(s):

agree Edward Tully : too quick for me!
2 mins
Thanks Edward :)
agree eski : Nice! eski
7 hrs
agree Fátima Aparecida de Oliveira Abbate : Perfect!!
3 days 12 hrs
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