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Lira
This is a Spanish style of poetry that utilises a couple of eleven syllable lines. This is interesting, because most of the romance languages use 11 syllable lines commonly in their poetry...English being the major exception.
The Lira is composed of stanzas of 5 lines with a syllable order of 7,11,7,7,11 with a rhyme scheme of ababb
a note: the lira refers to a stanza of this style as well
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