User:Gatolisto/Canción del Pirata

Canción del pirata is a poem written by José de Espronceda and published for the first time in the magazine El Artista in 1835, appearing again in Poesías (1840), one of the maximum exponents of the poetry of Spanish Romanticism. It exalts a pirate as an example of a personality who lives on the margins of society, despising conventions and material goods. The protagonist's highest ideal is freedom.

It is written with three different rhyme schemes:


 * Head: Two stanzas with rhyme - a a b / - c c b of octosyllabic lines with consonant rhyme, leaving the 1st and 5th lines free. The rhyme of the 4th and 8th is acute. That is to say, they are acute or Italian octavillas.


 * Strophes: Composed of two schemes. The first: a b a c c b, octosyllables with consonant rhyme. The second line is tetrasyllabic. To this sextuplet is added another eight-line verse with the same pattern as the tetrasyllabic head of verse. The rhyme of the fourth and eighth lines is acute, repeating the pattern of the head of verse.


 * Chorus: - a - a, octosyllabic couplet with assonant rhyme.

It is inspired by Le chant des pirates (1827), a poem by the Frenchman Louis Marie Fontan, although the Hispanist Robert Marrast believes that the model is rather L'ami de la tempête, an imitation of the opening song of Lord Byron's The Privateer (1814), composed in 1821 and published in 1826 by M. de Lourdoueix. All critics agree, however, that it surpasses these texts.