The dalit is a type of short
Filipino
Filipino may refer to:
* Something from or related to the Philippines
** Filipino language, standardized variety of 'Tagalog', the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines.
** Filipinos, people who are citizens of th ...
poem, consisting of four lines with eight syllables each.
There is a controversy regarding its origin. One school of thought states that the dalit is Spanish in origin, particularly because its syllabification is even or ''pares''. Hence, it is said that the Spanish popularized the dalit in the Philippines. Another view holds that the dalit is indigenous, but the friars used its popularity to promote
Catholicism
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, in the form of
meditative verses.
See also
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Awit (poem) The awit ( Tagalog for "song") is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of 12-syllable quatrains. It follows the pattern of rhyming stanzas established in the Philippine epic ''Pasyon''. It is similar in form to the corrido.
One influential work in ...
References
Philippine poetry
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