Example of Verses De Arte Mayor

Verses of more than 8 syllables are called verses of major art. This difference with those of minor art is that the minor art verse is more used in music and popular poetry, while those of major art, due to their difficulty, are more used in poetry cultured.

Some of the types of poetry they use verses of major art, are the Alexandrian verse, which uses verses of 14 syllables. Another of them is the sonnet, in which verses of 14 and verses of 11 syllables are combined.

In relation to the number of syllables that make up each verse, they are called in the following ways:

1. Nine syllable verses = eneasyllables
2. Verses of ten syllables = decasyllables
3. Eleven syllable verses = hendecasyllables
4. Twelve syllable verses = twelve syllables
5. Thirteen syllable verses = tredecasyllables
6. Fourteen-syllable verses = tetradecasyllables
7. Fifteen syllable verses = pentadecasyllables
8. Verses of sixteen syllables = hexadecasyllables

Examples of verses of major art:

Nonasyllables

Your look is, Cara Mariluz,
Source of warm and dim light,
That the winter of my sad soul
Restless and cold, warm and calm.

Decasyllables

From the living room in the dark corner,
He is a great man with great will,
That heals without grudges alike,
The pains, be they white or black.

Endecasyllables:

With fury he who defends his way
Taking care of the people he goes without crying,
Willing yes, adversity to face,
no longer caring about the risk taken.

Twelve syllables:

A beautiful young woman with straight hair
people love her very much for being good,
the hand reaches out and helplessly helps anyone,
that's why they call her sweet white girl.

Tetradecasyllables

Lady with black eyes, with a warm look,
Look at me always happy, curious, happy or angry,
But always look at me, because in your black eyes,
My soul rests from pain, and from your anger.

THE ART OF VERSES

(Example of verses of major art with different metrics)

If the art of verse you want to learn,
About the major and minor you should know.
The eight syllable meter is the key,
Less to the minor, more to the major, the key.

The minor art verse of popular song is,
The voice, the music, the rhythm, the rhyme,
Of the people color and legitimate expression,
Their songs are heard of love and pain and candor.

The one of minor art, eight syllables or less
Has every verse of the stanza,
Life expresses, the truth philosophizes,
The rhyme conserves in the good verses.

The one of major art, beautiful and musical verse too,
No less beautiful, lyrical and with great rhyme,
Verse in which rule of more than eight syllables prima,
And great effort is that the syllables get very well.

Of good and brainy and distinguished poets,
It is glory to write Alexandrine and sonnet,
With dedicated effort or during hours of rest,
The free and beautiful stanzas are the goals.