Verse Example: Redondilla

The round they have their origins during the Middle Ages, most probably among the clergymen in religious poetry, written in Latin; later this format passed to the popular poetry of the minstrels and to the vulgar language; some of the examples of redondillas profane are among the works of the Infante Don Juan Manuel, Around the year 1300; the Infante Don Juan Manuel was the nephew of King Alfonso X, El Sabio, and it is very likely that this character also cultivated the genre.
Many were composed rounds by the great authors of the Spanish Golden Age, and their influence passed to the colonies; One of the great examples of the Novohispanic redondillas were those composed by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
The round It is a genre of stanza formed by four verses of minor art, eight syllables, with the rhyme of the first verse with the fourth, and the second with the third (Forma abba).
Examples of redondillas:
1:
White dove of peace,
Of the war marks the end,
Cover us the morning light
Cease the talkative slaughter.

2:
Traveling in a distant land
Looking for me, sense,
I saw her eyes and a heartbeat
My soul was reborn fresh.
3:
Her hands of white ivory,
Her eyes of celestial blue,
Tulle lace dress,
And a high shoe like a stilt.
4:
Warm and frank embrace,
Look at me kind, so tender,
My heart already rules,
Sadness starts from me.
5:
We go a long way,
In the rain or snow
If with her, everything brief,
Without it, only bad but.
6:
She young, nineteen,
I bigger, twenty-five,
I try harder,
Her passion always moves me.
7:
She wait for me patiently
The time of the clock counting,
Her lips singing song
His faithful growing affection.
8:
Ode to noodle soup,
I write from the pasture,
Now that it's on my table
I eat them without flourishes.
9:
Put the hard semolina,
Coarse grinding of wheat,
For the couscous, Turkish friend,
Take it with egg pasta.
10:
With salt, water, egg and spices
A hard paste remains,
Seasoned in a deep wheel,
With tomato and salt you appreciate.