- 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...
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usually follows the
structure of "cante" that
consist of four or five
octosyllabic verses (coplas) or
musical phrases (tercios). Occasionally, the first...
- Le
Roman de
Silence is an
octosyllabic verse Old
French roman in the
Picard dialect,
dated to the
first half of the 13th century. It is the only work attributed...
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written c. 1315. The poem
consists of
approximately 20,000 rhyming,
octosyllabic lines. It
features a
Middle English retelling of the
Gospel in 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...
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partitions by
neighboring empires. His
works including plays written in the
octosyllabic verse (Zemsta) and in
prose (Damy i Huzary) as well as fables, belong...
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Medieval French literature,
dating to c. 1160. It is
written in
French octosyllabic couplets totaling a
little over 10,000 lines. Its
subject matter is the...
- giants. The "Albina story"
survives in
several forms,
including the
octosyllabic Anglo-Norman poem "Des
grantz geanz"
dating to 1300–1334.
According to...
- Le Testament,
comprising over
twenty essentially independent poems in
octosyllabic verse,
consists of a
series of fixed-form poems,
namely 16
ballades and...
-
canon of
Polish literature. It is a play in four acts,
written in the
octosyllabic verse mostly in the
vernacular of
Lesser Poland (Małopolska); filled...
