Heptasyllabic is a minor art verse, with seven syllables. In poetry of oral tradition, appears mainly combined with the pentasyllable, forming the strophe called seguidilla. In the cultured poetry of italianizante root usually is combined with the endecasílabo, forming, according to the case, liras, estancias or silvas. They are also heptasílabos, as a rule, the hemistiquios of the composite verse denominated alejandrino. History

The first literary texts in Spanish composed in heptasílabos that have reached us are the Auto de los Reyes Magos and the Dispute of the soul and the body, both of the twelfth century. It fell into disuse during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but returned strongly in the Renaissance. In the seventeenth century, Góngora and Lope de Vega, among others, composed romances lay in this meter, as the one that begins with the verse "Poor little boat!", By Lope, whose success gave rise to the so-called " kind of novels. It was the favorite verse of the neoclassical authors, and its use continued during the romanticism. Later, in the modernist period, it decayed, but some authors of the generation of the 27, like Federico Garci'a Lorca, made frequent use of him again. Notes

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