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XXI[1]

¿Qué es poesía? dices mientras clavas
En mi pupila tu pupila azul;
¿Qué es poesía? ¿Y tú me lo preguntas?
Poesía ... eres tú.[2]

[Footnote 1: We have here three hendecasyllabic verses of both classes, followed by a heptasyllabic. Notice the hiatus in the 1st, 3d, and 4th verses. The 2d and 4th are agudos and assonanced.]

[Footnote 2: This thought is developed in the first of Becquer's Cartas literarias á una mujer.]