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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

enjambment in Lorca: a hypothesis

 Here's my hypothesis.  Lorca is a poet attuned to song, and there is no enjambment in song. He will enjamb, but not in a way that affects the (hypothetical) musical phrase. In this example, the enjambments occur between stanzas, and each stanza is a phrase.  Leaving aside the refrain, we have rhyme with the last words of each stanza, first volver, amanecer, ayer, and then retornar, manantial, mar.  The enjambment is emphatic, but doesn't interfere with the intonational phrase.  Groups of two or three lines form single phrases.  Stanzas of four are binary, with two groups of two.  


    Yo vuelvo

    por mis alas.

    

¡Dejadme volver!


¡Quiero morirme siendo

amanecer!


    Yo vuelvo 

    por mis alas.


¡Quiero morirme siendo

ayer!


    Yo vuelvo 

    por mis alas.


¡Dejadme retornar!


Quiero morirme siendo

manantial.


Quiero morirme fuera

de la mar. 

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