/lit/ - Literature

What about Lope de Vega? Everyone talks about Cervantes, but not about his rival. Fuenteovejuna is one of the highest peaks of spanish drama.

>inb4, I know the Spanish verse and the English verse are totally different in use and tradition.

I am trying to find the poetry in English which is equivalent to that of Love de Vega (Renaissance's man and probably the best Spanish poet): regular in metre (syllabic verse; not feet metre), consonant rhyme and continuous pattern... I know it sounds dull in English and so is no common at all but in nursery rhymes, but because of that repetitive sound I can forget about the structure and drawn myself into the words meaning and denotations. To me it is highly evocative in its simplicity. Note most of his poems where love-related.

>To go and stay, to stay and split apart,
>to part without a soul and make your way
>with someone else’s soul; to have to stay
>bound to the mast while a siren tempts your heart;

>to burn straight down the wick until you’re spent,
>constructing castles on the softest sand;
>to tumble from a heaven and be damned,
>a tortured demon, never to repent
(cont.)

As I said, I know this is not common in English at all, but IF there's something like this and authentically in English, I want to read it.