Formas poéticas y temática del joropo central venezolano

venezuelan central joropo poetic forms and themes based on recordings, publications and interviews is presented. the most commonly poetic form is the copla (stanza of four verses), followed by the décima (spanish stanza of ten verses of eight syllables) and the corrido (romance), which seems to be disappearing. themes are quite numerous: humor, poverty, death, aging, sicknesses, inflation, liqueur and magical-religious cults are still being written about as well as love, which has had a rising number of compositions since the 1980s. among the disappearing themes, animals and fables are the most important ones. this vanishing mirrors the rural-urban population transformation during the last decades. politics, a theme that used to be only tangentially written about has turned into a frequent topic nowadays.