esa loma" carries ten grammatical syllables, but when spoken naturally it sounds like "A lláa rri baen e sa lo ma" which amounts to 8 spoken syllables. The variations based on the word's accents (agudas, graves, and esdrújulas) in the last word of the verse also allows for different numbers of metric syllables:

* If ending in an "aguda" word like "corazón" the line should have 7 metric syllables.
* If ending in a "grave" word like "loma" the line should have 8 metric syllables.
* If ending in an esdrújula word like "brújula"