For etymology and similar terms, see Octave (poetry).
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 mock-heroic works. Its earliest known use is in the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio.
The ottava rima stanza in English consists of eight iambic lines, usually iambic pentameters. Each stanza consists of three alternate rhymes and one double rhyme, following the ABABABCC rhyme scheme. The form is similar to the older Sicilian octave, but evolved separately and is unrelated. The Sicilian octave is derived from the medieval strambotto and was a crucial step in the development of the sonnet, whereas the ottava rima is related to the canzone, a stanza form.
Ottavarima 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: Ottavarima, an Italian rhyming stanza. In music, an octave. Particularly in the following musical instructions: All' ottava alta...
containing a variable number of eight-line stanzas in ottavarima (a rhyme scheme of abababcc). Ottavarima had been used in previous Italian romantic epics...
poems favored stanzaic forms, usually written in terza rima or especially ottavarima. Terza rima is a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking...
Swinburne, published in Poems and Ballads in 1866. It is in adapted ottavarima and is full of elaborate use of literary devices, particularly alliteration...
violence, and an exotic setting. The poem is composed of 1,917 stanzas in ottavarima (15,336 hendecasyllabic lines), grouped into twenty cantos of varying...
Marino, Adone, Canto II, stanza 1 (in Italian). Ottavarima at Encyclopædia Britannica. Ottavarima at Poetry Foundation. Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas...
uppercase representing masculine rhymes, written in iambic tetrameter Ottavarima: ABABABCC A quatrain is any four-line stanza or poem. There are 15 possible...
Although only the final two rhymes are different from the much more common ottavarima, the two eight-line forms evolved completely separately. According to...
last 6, and all 8 lines of an ottavarima stanza. Finally, lines 727-880 form an unbroken series of 51 tercets of terza rima (riming ABA BCB CDC...) with...
Gennaioli, Emilio; Selvi, Giovanna (1999). Cospaia e la sua storia in ottavarima: la straordinaria storia di un borgo dell'alta valle del Tevere, Cospaia...
song. Spenser's invention may have been influenced by the Italian form ottavarima, which consists of eight lines of iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme...
couplet oulipo ottavarima A verse form in which each stanza has eight iambic pentameter lines following the rhyme scheme ABABABCC. An ottavarima was often...
Naples. He and his like are the heroes of much popular verse, written in ottavarima beginning with the traditional epic invocation to the muse. A fine example...
compilation of Carolingian legend. An anonymous Buovo d'Antona: Cantari in ottavarima was printed in 1480, and a "Tuscan", in fact Padan of the Po Valley,...
turbolenze della Polonia. Gorizia. 1775–78 – Dell'Iliade di Omero tradotta in ottavarima. Venice. 1779 – Scrutinio del libro Eloges de M. de Voltaire par différents...
1622, published in Paris a poem entitled La Secchia Rapita. Written in ottavarima, his "poema eroicomico" consists of twelve substantial cantos and deals...
will convene, Benigni outdoes himself and recites a wonderful poem in ottavarima, recounting everything that had happened and been felt over the last...
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