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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 po****r in the
writing of...
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Ottava may
refer to:
Ottava rima, an
Italian rhyming stanza. In music, an octave.
Particularly in the
following musical instructions: All'
ottava alta...
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poems favored stanzaic forms,
usually written in
terza rima or
especially ottava rima.
Terza rima is a
rhyming verse stanza form that
consists of an interlocking...
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containing a
variable number of eight-line
stanzas in
ottava rima (a
rhyme scheme of abababcc).
Ottava rima had been used in
previous Italian romantic epics...
- Marino, Adone,
Canto II,
stanza 1 (in Italian).
Ottava rima at Encyclopædia Britannica.
Ottava rima at
Poetry Foundation. Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas...
- Swinburne,
published in
Poems and
Ballads in 1866. It is in
adapted ottava rima and is full of
elaborate use of
literary devices,
particularly alliteration...
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explorer Vasco da Gama (1469–1524). The ten
cantos of the poem are in
ottava rima and
total 1,102 stanzas.
Written in
Homeric fashion, the poem focuses...
- last 6, and all 8
lines of an
ottava rima stanza. Finally,
lines 727-880 form an
unbroken series of 51
tercets of
terza rima (riming ABA BCB CDC...) with...
- but as a
victim easily seduced by women. Don Juan is a poem
written in
ottava rima and
presented in 16
cantos in
which Lord
Byron derived the character...
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Norah McGuinness. “Sailing to Byzantium” is a poem in four
stanzas of
ottava rima, each
composed of
eight lines of
iambic pentameter to
narrate a journey...
