Verso de arte mayor

The Verso de arte mayor (Spanish for " verse of the higher art ", even for a short Arte mayor ) referred to in the metric of Spanish poetry one arisen from the 14th century multiform Vers His interpretation is controversial. Originally, he was - in contrast to the shorter Verso de arte menor - not a syllable counting Langvers of eight to 16 syllables, which became a regular zwölfsilbigen verse with four beats and middle watershed. The term ' verso de arte mayor ' is also used for the ' pie de arte mayor '. This is a verse of two half verses, each of which has a rhythmic accent at the beginning and at the end and are separated by two unstressed syllables.

Its heyday he lived in the 15th century by Juan de Mena's didactic- allegorical epic poem Laberinto de Fortuna ( 1444 ), whose Coplas, the so-called Octavas de Juan de Mena, from eight Arte- mayor - verse in the rhyme schemes a -b- b -aa- C- C- A or A -B-A -BB -C - C-B consist of:

" Al muy prepotente don Juan el segundo Aquel con quien tuvo Jupiter tal zelo que de tanta parte del mundo le FIZO quanta a sí mesmo se FIZO del Cielo, al gran rey de España, al Cesar novelo; al que bien con Fortuna it fortunado, Aquel en quien caben virtud e Reinado; a él, la rodilla fincada por suelo. "