cielito

poetic form
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Spanish:
“darling” or, literally, “little heaven”

cielito, a poetic form associated with gaucho literature, consisting of an octosyllabic quatrain written in colloquial language and rhyming in the second and fourth lines. The Uruguayan poet Bartolome Hidalgo was especially known for his poems in this form. The form takes its name from the frequent use of the Spanish word cielito in refrains.