Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, it later came to be popular in the writing of...

Ottava may refer to: Ottava rima, an Italian rhyming stanza. In music, an octave. Particularly in the following musical instructions: All' ottava alta...

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...

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...

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...

by women. As genre literature, Don Juan is an epic poem, written in ottava rima and presented in 16 cantos. Lord Byron derived the character of Don Juan...

Although only the final two rhymes are different from the much more common ottava rima, the two eight-line forms evolved completely separately. According to...

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...

then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey...

Marino, Adone, Canto II, stanza 1 (in Italian). Ottava rima at Encyclopædia Britannica. Ottava rima at Poetry Foundation. Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas...

Naples. He and his like are the heroes of much popular verse, written in ottava rima beginning with the traditional epic invocation to the muse. A fine example...

1817. Beppo marks Byron's first attempt at writing using the Italian ottava rima metre, which emphasized satiric digression. It is the precursor to Byron's...

violence, and an exotic setting. The poem is composed of 1,917 stanzas in ottava rima (15,336 hendecasyllabic lines), grouped into twenty cantos of varying...

uppercase representing masculine rhymes, written in iambic tetrameter Ottava rima: ABABABCC A quatrain is any four-line stanza or poem. There are 15 possible...

Gennaioli, Emilio; Selvi, Giovanna (1999). Cospaia e la sua storia in ottava rima: la straordinaria storia di un borgo dell'alta valle del Tevere, Cospaia...

medieval trope. He composed cantari in the eight-line stanzas called ottava rima, telling the subjects of courtly romance in a fast-paced narrative, with...

heroic couplets; in July 1820, he translated the Hymn to Hermes into ottava rima. Of Shelley's own poems, The Witch of Atlas, written in 1820, and With...

without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait." Sicilian octave Ottava rima Milton, John. "Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent". poetry...

satire of the chivalric tradition. Ariosto composed the poem in the ottava rima rhyme scheme and introduced narrative commentary throughout the work...

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...

Burgess, published posthumously in 1995. Composed mostly in the same ottava rima stanzas that Byron used for his Don Juan, the story follows the fortunes...

couplet oulipo ottava rima A verse form in which each stanza has eight iambic pentameter lines following the rhyme scheme ABABABCC. An ottava rima was often...

turbolenze della Polonia. Gorizia. 1775–78 – Dell'Iliade di Omero tradotta in ottava rima. Venice. 1779 – Scrutinio del libro Eloges de M. de Voltaire par différents...

song. Spenser's invention may have been influenced by the Italian form ottava rima, which consists of eight lines of iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme...

venuta del Re Carlo con la rotta del Taro (1496-1497). Guerre d'Italia in ottava rima (II 4.8:58) Unlike his father, a man feared for his cruelty and hated...

experimented in stanza forms including the rondeau, epigrams, terza rima, ottava rima songs, and satires, as well as with monorime, triplets with refrains...

are various kinds of possible accentuations. It is used in sonnets, in ottava rima, and in many other types of poetry. The Divine Comedy, in particular...

will convene, Benigni outdoes himself and recites a wonderful poem in ottava rima, recounting everything that had happened and been felt over the last...

of their own, separate from the "a-bc" convention, such as the ottava rima and terza rima. The types and use of differing rhyming schemes are discussed...

1622, published in Paris a poem entitled La Secchia Rapita. Written in ottava rima, his "poema eroicomico" consists of twelve substantial cantos and deals...