Romance of the prisoner

It is an anonymous romance that belongs to the Old Romancero, known as the Traditional Romancero.
These romances have been transmitted orally since the Middle Ages. It is not an epic romance, but a
lyrical romance. Epic poems told historical legends or chivalrous
adventures. In this lyrical romance, the entire poem is aimed at
presenting an inner state, the feelings of the protagonist (lyrical
style), conditioned by the state of mind produced by the prison in
which he finds himself.
The main theme is the feeling of loneliness and anguish of a
prisoner faced with the absence of freedom and the impossibility
of enjoying the beauty of nature and the pleasures of love.
The text follows the metric scheme characteristic of romances. It is made up of octosyllabic verses with
rhyme in pairs. The rhyme is consonant, something unusual in epic romances, but not so much in
lyrical ones.

That in May it was May, If the good King did it, 8igg9)8,E
When it's hot, do it like a lord;
when the wheat harvests If the jailer does it,
And "MAN2pE
and the fields are in bloom, he does it like a traitor.
when the lark sings But who would give me now
and the nightingale answers, a talkative bird,
when lovers even if it were a calandria,

They will serve love or thrush or nightingale;

but I, sad, wretched, was raised among ladies
that I live in this prison, and accustomed to reason,
I don't even know when it is daytime that an embassy take me
nor when the nights are, To my wife Leonor,
but by a little bird send me a pie,
that sang to me at dawn. not trout or salmon,
A crossbowman killed me: but of a deaf file

May God give him a bad reward! and a sharp beak:

Hairs of my head the file for the irons
they reach my hock; and the peak for the tower!
the hairs of my beard The King had heard it,
I have tablecloths; mandol remove the prison.
the nails of my hands
by a sharp knife.

What better task to understand the structure of a romance than writing romances in class? That's what we did
and here is the result.
 ROMANCE ON HOW TO MAKE A ROMANCEMaking
a romance is easy because
the even verses rhyme and
the rhyme is assonant
, which is the simplest rhyme.
Look for a verse with eight
real syllables, which you
pronounce by counting them with your fingers
, carefully and with great attention.
And notice the word
that ends each verse.
If it is sharp you will add
an extra one as a tip.
Instead, remove one if the last
one
is proparoxytone and with that we finish
the matter of the meter.
Now that we have mastered that
point, let's go back to the rhyme,
since all the
even-numbered verses have to have the same
repetition of vowels when you
pronounce
the last stressed syllable. Also
, the romance ends whenever
you want because
romances continue indefinitely
.

-Read carefully and with the appropriate intonation.

-Analyze what it is about and what the author wants to tell us with it.
-Look up words we don't understand in the dictionary.
CONCEPT OF VERSE:
Each line of a poem is called a VERSE. Hence we say that poems are written in
verse.

MEASUREMENT OF THE VERSES:

Measuring verses is more than just comparing them visually, it is very useful for
studying a poem. To do it right you have to use a method.
The length of a verse is equal to its number of syllables.
So let's measure the verses well!

Romance of the prisoner

Keep in That-in-May-I-was,-in-May-I-, 8 when-
mind the-heat-is-coming, 7+1=8 when-the-
-When a word ends in a wheat-are-in-sun-grow 8 and-the-
fields-are-in-bloom, 7+1=8 when-the-
vowel and the next one lark-sings 8 and-the-nightingale-
begins with a vowel oh, the answers, 7+1=8 when-the-in-love-
two syllables are counted as ones □ are-going-to-serve-love; 9 . either
one. This phenomenon is • xx • x I 7+1=8
called; if-not-I,- sad, -cared-for, -that-I-live_ in-
SYNALEPHA OR . this-prison; 7.1g that-I-do-not-know-
when-it-is-day-or-when-the-nights-are,
9 . either . .n
-If the verse ends in an acute 7+1=8
word, one more syllable is if-not-for-a-time-that-sang-to-me-
at-dawn. 0
,
counted. ■—’ 7+ -R
-If the verse ends in a A ballerina killed me; 9"
of-the-God-evil-qa-lar-don.
proparoxytone word, one 7+1=8
less syllable is counted.

According to the length of the verses, they can be classified into two
groups:

MINOR ART VERSES: Those that have 8 syllables or less.

VERSES OF MAJOR ART: Those that have more than 8 syllables.

CONSONANT RHYME AND ASSONANT RHYME

Rhyme is the coincidence of sounds that two or more words have starting with the
stressed vowel.
ASSONANT RHYME - Each group of words has in common that they have the same
vowels but not the same consonants from the stressed syllable.
 I had a cloud

new cream
belt rest correct except
CONSONANT RHYME - Each group of words has in common that they have the
same consonants and vowels from their stressed syllable onwards.
Castile longing callus
chapel hair horse
chair model rooster

THE VERSE
The verses of poems are usually grouped into stanzas.
In each stanza that forms the poem, the verses present a fixed scheme in their
rhyme and meter.
In this case, we call each stanza a COUPLED.
These are two verses that rhyme with each other.
Romance of the prisoner 1

In this case, we call each stanza a TERCELET.

These are three verses of major art that have consonant rhyme, the first with the
third.
For my poor aching body, 11a
for my sad lacerated soul, 10b
for my cold wounded heart, 10a

for my bitter, weary life... 11b

the beloved sea, the desired sea, 11a
the sea, the sea, and not think about anything...! 10b

LITERARY RESOURCES
Definition: These are the resources that writers usually use to distinguish their
language from the one we normally use. They serve to give liveliness and
expressiveness to the text.

Repetition is a literary resource that consists of repeating some words, verses and
even stanzas within a poem. Repetition brings rhythm and musicality to texts.

Malibu
Malibu,
Waves with rain.
Air of music.
Malibu, Captive
Water.
Sea cave.
Malibu, Fairy
name.
 Enchanted force.
Malibu,
Howling wind.
Witches' Forest.
Malibu,
One word,
and in it, magic.
Luis Cernuda

Personification consists of attributing human faculties to animals, objects, plants…

The ballad of sea water

The sea
smiles in the distance.
Federico Garcia Lorca.

Comparison means saying that two different things are similar because they share
some quality or feature.
Because, girl, they are your eyes.
XII
Because your
eyes are a girl, green as the sea, you complain.
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer.

Metaphor is a literary resource that consists of identifying two realities, calling one
by the name of the other. It would be a step beyond comparison.

Thanks to life
that has given me so much.
He gave me two eyes that
when I open them, I
can perfectly distinguish
black and white,
and in the high sky
its starry background,
and in the multitudes
the man that I love.
Violet Parra