Copla of broken foot is the name that is given to any type of verse octosyllabic combined with verses tetrasílabos. If the previous rhyme is acute, they can be verses of three syllables, since compensation is established and counted as tetrasyllabic. The stanza could have many variants. The most well-known scheme is that of the sextilla of broken foot, also called mannish copla for being used by Jorge Manrique in the Coplas for the death of his father: 8a, 8b, 4c, 8a, 8b, 4c. Frequently the sextillas are grouped in pairs. Origin
The sextillas of broken foot or manriqueñas are in a lyric poem entitled "Gozos a Santa María", although the tetrasílabo of the third rhyme, according to the current conventions, would be a pentasílabo to be acute: Virgin, of the heaven, e of the world melecina, want to hear me, what of your joys aina write me worthy prose for serving you. Tell you your joy begging you all way, I sinner, that to the great fault of mine non-relatives, Mary, more to the loor.
The moment of greatest apogee of this sextilla was during century XV. They appear for the first time in the work of Juan de Mena and were widely used by song poets since the middle of that century.
The most well-known poem that used this stanza is the Coplas to the death of his father Jorge Manrique, so the copla of broken foot is also known by the name of "copla" or "stanza manriqueña." Here is an example taken from the Coplas de Manrique, which represents the summit of this poetic form. Those powerful kings what we see by scriptures already gone, with sad, tearful cases, they were your good luck disturbed. So there's no strong thing, that to popes and emperors and prelates, Death treats them like that like the poor shepherds of cattle. Bibliography used
wiki
