What does «pie forzado» mean in Spanish?
- Verse or each of the consonants or assonants fixed in advance for a composition that must necessarily end in that verse, or that must have a prefixed rhyme. It is a form of poetic improvisation that is a traditional variant of the improvisation of décimas, an art that has existed in the Hispanic sphere for several centuries. According to some scholars, the pie forzado originated in the Arabic zéjel. It is used in a quintilla or in a décima. It is a common technique among payadores, the Puerto Rican décima or the improvisation of Cuban repentistas (the traditional technique involves improvising a décima that ends with a verse given by another person, a jury, for example).
- A theme that is presented to the improviser during a singers' event for him/her to develop through the first quatrain (the first four verses) the related theme, passing then to two linking stanzas to finish the final quatrain or conclusion, and thus cover the theme.
♦ Used in: Puerto Rico - Comparison, almost obligatory, with something that precedes it or said of something that cannot fail to be present, which is a truism.
Examples of use in Spanish: "Un análisis orientado a examinar los aspectos más distintivos que caracterizan la actual producción artística en el contexto local, no puede dejar de prescindir de un cierto pie forzado, a saber: su comparación con el arte precedente".
"El reciclaje es la contraparte pragmática a la visión romántica del paisaje post-industrial. Se plantea aquí el reciclar como pie forzado para la creación artística. Aparte de concienciarnos de nuestros hábitos consumistas, el objeto reciclado como forma de arte encuentra nuevos significados cuando los elementos son reconstituidos y recontextualizados en una nueva trama".