A décima refers to a ten-line stanza of poetry, and the song form generally consists of forty-four lines (an introductory four-verse stanza followed by four ten-line stanzas). It is also called `espinela,` after its founder, Vicente Espinel (1550–1624), a Spanish writer and musician of the Siglo de Oro. The décima deals with a wide range of .....
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a traditional sung poetry form based in an ancient Spanish literary form that evolved into improvised ten-line oral poetry among various Spanish-speaking populations of the Americas. In Louisiana the Isleños, people originally from the Canary Islands, maintain a décima tradition.
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