[Footnote 1: We have here three hendecasyllabic verses of both classes, followed by a heptasyllabic. Notice the hiatus in the 1st, 3d, and 4th verses. The 2d and 4th are agudos and assonanced.]

[Footnote 2: This thought is developed in the first of Becquer's Cartas literarias Á una mujer.]