- couplets,
typical stanzas using octosyllables are: décima, some quatrains, redondilla. In
Spanish verse, an
octosyllable is a line that has its seventh...
- by Aldhelm. It is the
earliest example of the
verse form
continuous octosyllables, of
which he may have been the inventor, and the
earliest surviving...
-
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...
- 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...
-
Language Old
French Date
between 1182 and 1190
Genre Chivalric romance Verse form
Octosyllable rhyming couplets Length 9,000
lines Subject Arthurian legend...
-
Champagne M****cript(s) BnF Français 794
Genre Chivalric romance Verse form
Octosyllable rhyming couplets Length 7,134
lines Subject Arthurian legend Setting...
- born in
France and
wrote in England.
Marie de France's lais, told in
octosyllables or eight-syllable verse, are
notable for
their celebration of love,...
- (The Lover's Confession)
Written 1390
Country England Language Middle English Meter Octosyllable Lines 33,000 Full text
Confessio Amantis at Wikisource...
-
Tournament of the Antichrist"), a 3,546-line Old
French poem
written in
octosyllables. Huon's life is a
matter of
conjecture based on
references in his work...
-
through seven m****cripts and
various fragments. The poem
comprises 6,664
octosyllables in
rhymed couplets.
Prose versions also
exist since at
least the 15th...
