[Footnote 1: This poem is composed of hendecasyllabic verses of both classes, alternating with regular heptasyllabic versos agudos, which latter have the same assonance throughout. Notice the esdrÚjulo terminating the 5th verse, and the hiatus in the 19th verse.] [Footnote 2: JordÁn. The principal river of Palestine. The idea of cleansing by "washing in Jordan" comes originally from the account of Elisha's cure of Naaman as related in II Kings v. 10; but that of spiritual purification, from the New Testament account of the use made of the waters of Jordan by John the Baptist.] [Footnote 3 tenemos. The present tense is used here in the sense of the future.] |