[Footnote 1: This poem is composed of hendecasyllabic verses of both classes. The even verses are agudos and have the same assonance throughout. Note the esdrÚjulo ending the lst verse. The thought of the poem is very similar to that of Heine's Wann zwei van einander scheiden:

Often when two are parting,
Each grasps a hand as friend;
And then begins a weeping
And a sighing without end.

We did not sigh when parting;
No tears between us fell;
The weeping and the sighing
Came after our farewell.

Lyrical Intermezzo, No. 55, translated by Chas. G. Leland.]