Note F — Chapter III · FROM GARCILASSO TO THE ARGENSÓLAS.
Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen translation
The Spaniards call quebrado those shorter verses which are, as it were, broken from, and intermingled with their redondillas mayores, or octosyllabic lines, as for example:
"Recuerde el alma adormida, Avive el seso y despierte, Contemplando Como se pasa la vida, Como se viene la muerte, Tan callando." Manrique.
They do not however strike an English ear as destitute of harmony, but it is a harmony that in any long composition would become very monotonous.