Poetry Example: Madrigal

The madrigal is a poetic form that has its origin in Italy, during the Renaissance, the name derives from "mandriale" which means "flock" and is a form of poetry pastoral or bucolic in which love is spoken with intensity and delicacy using a free combination of verses of 7 and 11 syllables (heptasylables and hendecasyllables, respectively). It does not have a specified number of verses, and it can be a single stanza.

The madrigal it was cultivated by great Italian authors, such as Francisco Petrarca and Dante Alighieri, who established the models to follow for later authors.

Due to its characteristics and musicality, many madrigals they have been put to music, even by great musicians, like Claudio Monteverdi.

Below a example of the madrigal:

I see the light in your eyes
Lighting up my gray mornings
I feel your red lips
brushing my skin under the covers.
The warmth of your sweet company
clears the clouds of melancholy;
you are the light of my nights,
angel that my life guides;
my loves wastes
that I long for your love,
so that my soul never leaves empty,
and let's live heaven forever.