- 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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Language Old
French Date
between 1182 and 1190
Genre Chivalric romance Verse form
Octosyllable rhyming couplets Length 9,000
lines Subject Arthurian legend...
- in
seven m****cripts and
various fragments. The poem
comprises 6,878
octosyllables in
rhymed couplets. A
prose version was made in the 15th century. The...
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Champagne M****cript(s) BnF Français 794
Genre Chivalric romance Verse form
Octosyllable rhyming couplets Length 7,134
lines Subject Arthurian legend Setting...
- is
sometimes used in French, Italian,
Spanish and
Portuguese poetry.
octosyllable decasyllable hendecasyllable dodecasyllable Diccionario de la lengua...
- Keats's Endymion: "A
thing of
beauty is a joy for ever".
Hexasyllable Octosyllable Decasyllable Dodecasyllable Hal****,
James W.; Ostwald, Martin; Rosenmeyer...
-
survives in
eight m****cripts and two fragments. It
comprises 6,808
octosyllables in
rhymed couplets. Two m****cripts are illustrated,
Paris BnF MS fr...
- (The Lover's Confession)
Written 1390
Country England Language Middle English Meter Octosyllable Lines 33,000 Full text
Confessio Amantis at Wikisource...
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French romance (roman) was, however, most
often written in 8
syllable (or
octosyllable) verse.) Use of the 10
syllable line in
French poetry was
eclipsed by...
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Albanian flag. It is pla**** by a lahutar, a rapsode. The
Albanian songs are
octosyllable, in
relation to the
decasyllable Serbian, and a more
primitive type of...
