redondilla

The _redondilla menor_ has the same form expressed in lines of less than eight syllables.

Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

The Spanish ballad, or _romance_, was a stanza (_redondilla_, roundel) of four eight-syllable lines with a prevailing trachaic movement -- just the metre, in short, of "Locksley Hall."

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

[13] The _redondilla_ may be considered as the basis of Spanish versification.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827

The redondilla admits of great variety; but in the romances it is most frequently found to consist of eight syllables, the last foot, and some or all of the preceding, as the case may be, being trochees.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827

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.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827

_redondilla_ [13], as the Spanish ballad measure is called, rolling on its graceful, negligent _asonante_, [14] whose continued repetition seems by its monotonous melody to prolong the note of feeling originally struck, is admirably suited by its flexibility to the most varied and opposite expression; a circumstance which has recommended it as the ordinary measure of dramatic dialogue.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827