redondilla

He hath good skill with the lute, and he has in his memory a thousand redondillas, with which he may divert the leisure of my lord.

It contains, among other things, eight comedies, written in the native redondillas; which continue to be regarded as the suitable measure for the drama.

He possessed, however, the soul of a poet; and when he abandons himself to his native redondillas, delivers his sentiments with a sweetness and grace inimitable.

Sarmiento traces it to the hexameter of the ancient Romans, which may be bisected into something analogous to the redondillas.

Conde has given a translation of certain Spanish-Arabian poems, in the measure of the original, from which it is evident, that the hemistich of an Arabian verse corresponds perfectly with the redondilla.