Note (return) — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
Whether normal Spanish verse has, or ever had, binary movement, with the occasional substitution of a "troche" for an "iambic," or vice-versa, is in dispute.8 That is, whether in Spanish verse, with the usual movement, (1) the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables is essential, or whether (2) the mere balancing of certain larger blocks of syllables is sufficient. For instance, in this line of Luis de León: