Florante At Laura

It is called an " Awit ", which to the layman means "a song". The Florante and Laura has 339 stanzas. In truth, the Awit is a poetic form which, in Florante at Laura, had the following characteristics:

:1. 4 lines/stanza;
:2. 12 syllables/line;
:3. a rhyme scheme of AAAA (in the Tagalog manner of rhyming described by Jose Rizal in Tagalische Verskunst );
:4. a slight pause on the sixth syllable;
:5. each stanza is usually a complete grammatically-correct sentence;
:6. each stanza is full of figures of speech (according to Fernando Monleon, Balagtas used 28 types in 395 instances throughout the poem);
:7. the author is usually anonymous;
:8. among others.

PLOT

Most of the song is this story of Florante; the actual events after his story comprise only a few chapters of the epic.

The story begins with Florante, the main protagonist, tied to a tree. He laments a certain loss of his. Two lions approach to kill him, but he is saved by a Muslim from Persia, Aladin. Thankful, Florante tells the story of how he got there, starting from his childhood.

Florante details his relationship with his lover, Laura. A treacherous nobleman named Adolfo was jealous of Florante and arranged for Florante to be killed. Aladin tells Florante that he, too, is in similar circumstances--his own father, Sultan Ali-Adab, also deposed Aladin from power, separating him from his beloved Flerida.

In a remarkable coincidence, Flerida happens to save Laura just as Aladin saved Florante. Florante and Laura return to their home country, Albania , and become the King And Queen . Aladin and Flerida are baptized, and they return to Persia to become the next rulers there after Aladin's despotic father dies.

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Florante At Laura