Meaning of zejelesque | Babel Free

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“The relationship between the villancico and parallelistic or zejelesque elaborations remains a mystery, but S.R. sees the few examples of popular traditional elaborations as neither rigidly parallelistic, on the one hand, nor, on the other, zejelesque ; they are an amalgam of the two formulae, and could be called "zejelismo paralelistico" or "paralelismo zejelesco".”

“A more zejelesque kind of verse, however, is found in the anonymous Provencal baladas.”

“The originality of this eight-line stanza lies in the fact that the zejelesque rhyme scheme (aaab) shows up on even-numbered lines, while odd-numbered lines remain free, except for the seventh, which sometimes has an a rhyme.”

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