Legends, Tales and Poems by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - HTML preview

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XXXIX[1]

 

¿Á que me lo decís? lo sé: es mudable,
Es altanera y vana y caprichosa;
Antes que el sentimiento de su alma,
Brotará el agua de la estéril roca.

  Sé que en su corazón, nido de sierpes,
No hay una fibra que al amor responda;
Que es una estatua inanimada... pero...
      ¡Es tan hermosa!

[Footnote 1: This poem is composed of hendecasyllabic verses of both classes, with a closing pentasyllabic verse. The even verses have the same assonance throughout.]

 

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