10 Examples of Short Couplets

Short Couples

The verses they are a type of poem, generally intended to be sung. They are usually composed of four ocatasyllable verses (of eight syllables each) and use a colloquial language to deal with everyday life issues.

The verses emerged in Spain in the 18th century, as a popular means of communication. Although it is common that the authors of the traditional verses are not known, some well-known coplas are Rafael de León, Manuel López Quiroga, and Antonio Quintero, Federico García Lorca.

Also called "tonadillas", they are often used in songs. The rhyme can be assonant (only the vowels match) or consonant (vowels and consonants of the last syllable coincide).

They can have different rhyming configurations:

Themes of the verses

The verses can address different themes, but always with a strong emotional charge, trying to generate a sentimental mobilization in the listener or reader. The verses bring the issuer or narrator of the song closer to his listener or reader.

Over the years, different verses have emerged. We can find verses about love, heartbreak, death, religion and everyday life.

Examples of short verses

1. Short couplets of love

For me everything is beautiful
For me everything is the same
I am a lucky man
That always sings when waking up

I don't know what the wind says
I don't know what the sea says
More when I look at the horizon
I always start to cry

At sunset I sing
A praise to heaven
I don't have my rhyme anymore
And then I regret

My memory does not forget
More yes I can forgive
Every time i remember
My eyes start to cry

My whole being has loved
To the one who with contempt saw me
Although my regrets I have forgotten
My pain never stopped

All I ask is a wish
To hug me at night
And be it when I wake up my dream
So that my laughter can stay
Beyond the simple memory

My yearnings I have never lost
More my way I have changed
For the paths diverge
But my soul is still waiting

That summer love
That I have never forgotten
Today I would like to find it again
To make up the time of our delayed love

The more I think about the lost
The present is more alive
Well what was lost is already gone
And the present still beats in my being assiduously

The cicada sings and sings
And in her singing she tells me
Your pain and your grief
The more I can guess
Such regret

My hopeful love
It's already gone
Well over time I have learned
That the past is gone

When my heart feels
My mouth is silent
When my mind thinks
My lips speak

I am tired of waiting
May your love choose me as before
I prefer to forget more
All your wandering contempt

1. Short children's songs

My neighbor the turtle
Eat and eat all the time and every day
Although it sometimes eats caterpillars
That are on top of the twigs

In the park we sing
With my friends the ants
We sing because we want
Take us on a trip to the Indies

1. Short religious verses

The father's son has come
And for us her life gave
More is time to remember
So as not to feel that he died in vain

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