An eight line song, most common in Central Italy, especially Lazio, Tuscany and Abruzzo
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Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, it later came to be popular in the writing of mock-heroic works. Its earliest known use is in the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio. The ottava rima stanza in English consists of eight iambic lines, usually iambic pentameters. Each stanza consists...
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• A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet. It was used by Byron in `Don Juan,` by Keats in `Isabella,` by Shelley in `The Witch of Atlas,` etc.
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Italian stanza form composed of eight 11-syllable lines, rhyming abababcc. It originated in the late 13th and early 14th centuries and was developed ... [4 related articles]
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An italian stanza of eight 11-syllable lines, with the rhyme scheme abababcc, introduced by sir thom
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Ot·ta'va ri'ma [ Italian See
Octave , and
Rhyme .]
(Pros.) A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet. It was used by Byron in 'Don Juan,' by Keats in 'Isabella,' by Shelley in 'The Witch of Atlas,' etc.
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A poem, of Italian origin, consisting of eight line stanzas with a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c.
e.g. Don Juan by Lord Byron.
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An eight line song, most common in Central Italy, especially Lazio, Tuscany and Abruzzo
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abababcc.
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n] - a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc
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noun a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc
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an Italian stanza of eight lines, each of eleven syllables (or, in the English adaptation, of ten or eleven syllables), the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet with a different rhyme: used in Keats' Isabella and Byron's Don Juan.
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