- The
octosyllable or
octosyllabic verse is a line of
verse with
eight syllables. It is
equivalent to
tetrameter verse in
trochees in
languages with a stress...
- epileptic, hypnolepsy, hysteroepilepsy, metalepsis, narcolepsy, nympholepsy,
octosyllabic, procatalepsis, prolepsis, proleptic, proslepsis, syllabic, syllabism...
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structure differs significantly, like
Spanish romanceros,
which are
octosyllabic and use
consonance rather than rhyme.
Ballads usually are
heavily influenced...
- giants. The "Albina story"
survives in
several forms,
including the
octosyllabic Anglo-Norman poem "Des
grantz geanz"
dating to 1300–1334.
According to...
- time 8 p.m.
There are
eight vegetables in V8 juice.
Eights may
refer to
octosyllabic,
usually iambic,
lines of verse. The drott-kvaett, an Old
Icelandic verse...
- long in
three books and
takes the form of a
dream vision composed in
octosyllabic couplets. Upon
falling asleep the poet
finds himself in a gl**** temple...
-
usually follows the
structure of "cante" that
consist of four or five
octosyllabic verses (coplas) or
musical phrases (tercios). Occasionally, the first...
- An
early French dramatic play is Le Jeu d'Adam (c. 1150)
written in
octosyllabic rhymed couplets with
Latin stage directions (implying that it was written...
-
Alexander Pope
combined in a
similar imitation of Horace's
Satire in
octosyllabic couplets, with Pope
playing the part of the story-teller from line 133...
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mediaeval times. Ysopet, an
adaptation of some of the
fables into Old
French octosyllabic couplets, was
written by
Marie de
France in the 12th century. The morals...