This marked the start of a new genre in Latin American literature which blended words from the Afro-Caribbean culture into the Spanish verse of Puerto Rico.

But in Toledo, the music of Spanish verse filled the air to the delight of all and poetry was again what it had been throughout history: queen of the verbal arts.

The most beautiful poems in the Galatea are a few in the cancion style, some of which are iambics, and some in trochaic or Old Spanish verse.

Original Spanish verse:

According to him, the nature of the English language gives a sense of coldness and practicality, while the Spanish verses add warmth and romance.

He also introduced new devices such as the triolet, rondel and Malayan pantun which revitalized Spanish verse.

Some common metres in Spanish verse are:

The introduction of Italian poetry, especially that of Petrarch, into the peninsula led to a revival of Spanish verse, which dominated Portugal throughout the fifteenth century.

Belinda has one Spanish verse on the song.

Every argument by which English blank verse or Spanish assonant verse is sustained, may with greater force be applied to the allowable rhyme.