Florante at laura summary
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Florante at Laura
Book by Francisco Balagtas
Florante at Laura[a] is an 1838 awit written by Tagalog poet Francisco Balagtas. The story was dedicated to his former sweetheart María Asunción Rivera, whom he nicknamed "M.A.R." and Selya in Kay Selya ("For Celia").[2][3][4]
The story is loosely based on Balagtas' own biography.
He wrote the epic during his imprisonment in Manila in c. 1835 – c. 1836.[5]
Form
Florante at Laura is written as an awit, meaning "song", but it also refers to a standard poetic format with the following characteristics:[6]
- four lines per stanza;[7]quatrain[6]
- twelve syllables per line;[7]
- an assonantal rhyme scheme of AAAA (as described by José Rizal in Tagalische Verskunst);[8]
- a caesura or pause after the sixth syllable;[7]
- a complete, grammatically correct sentence and a figure of speech for each stanza
