Other forms: redondillas
Redondilla, a four-line verse,
eight neat syllables for each line.
I have written one; here is mine,
Now you write one, better or worse.
The syllable count for a redondilla may vary, but it's usually eight syllables per each of four lines. So this traditional type of Spanish poem is a quatrain ("a four-line verse") with octosyllabic ("having eight syllables") lines. A redondilla typically has an ABBA rhyme scheme, meaning that the first and last lines rhyme, and the second and third lines rhyme. The word redondilla literally means "little round one," perhaps representing how the poem comes full circle, the last line rhyming with the first.