Ot*ta"va ri"ma (?). [It. See Octave, and
Rhyme.] (Pros.)
A stanza of eight lines of heroic
verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and
the last two forming a couplet. It was used by Byron in "Don Juan," by
Keats in "Isabella," by Shelley in "The Witch of Atlas,"
etc.
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