Here is an example of one of Cervantes Poems:
On the entrance of the Duke of Medina in Cádiz | A la entrada del duque de Medina en Cádiz |
In July we saw another Holy Week crammed full with certain confraternities --that soldiers around here call companies-- that turn our folks, but not the English, meek. Such a crowd of feathers loomed around, The calf roared loud, and set them all in line; in Cadiz, then, triumphant and refined, Alix Ingber - 1995 |
Vimos en julio otra Semana Santa atestada de ciertas cofradías, que los soldados llaman compañías, de quien el vulgo, no el inglés, se espanta. Hubo de plumas muchedumbre tanta, Bramó el becerro, y púsoles en sarta; y al cabo, en Cádiz, con mesura harta, |
This poem was taken from Professor Alix Ingber's Golden Age Spanish Sonnet's website
used with Permission