El hiperversículo en la generación de los novísimos

This article examines the “hyperverse”, as I will call the metric unit longer than the typical free verse line. The free verse innovates the modernist silva by introducing the versiculo, a compound line whose members share the general hendecasyllabic rhythm. The prosification of Juan Ramon Jimenez’s last poems meant a radical evolution of the free verse, but this move remained marginal. However, the hyperverse of the “novisimos” arises in the sixties as a link between the original free verse and its prosified variety. Besides, the hyperverse is a characterizing feature of the poetry of the “novisimos” which relates their generation to the vanguard.