Copla de arte mayor sometimes called
Octava de arte mayor or
Copla de Juan de Mena is metric rather than syllabic which is a departure from most Spanish verse. I found an example poem at
Vole Central and the form confirmed in an article by D C Clark in the Hispanic Review.
The Copla de arte mayor is:
- stanzaic, written any number of octaves.
- metric, amphibrachic tetrameter. uSu/uSu/uSu/uSu, the lines are often divided into 2 hemistiches.
- rhymed, abbaacca or sometimes ababbccb.