‖ redondilla
(redonˈdiʎa)
[Sp., dim. f. redonda fem. of redondo round.]
In Spanish poetry, a stanza of riming verse; spec. a stanza of four trochaic lines consisting of six or eight syllables, in which the first line rimes with the fourth, and the second with the third.
| 1837 Hallam Hist. Lit. I. ii. §41. 163 The favourite metre in lyric songs and romances was the redondilla. 1868 Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy iii. 257, I am a thing of rhythm and redondillas. |