- The
octosyllable or
octosyllabic verse is a line of
verse with
eight syllables. It is
equivalent to
tetrameter verse in
trochees in
languages with a stress...
- long in
three books and
takes the form of a
dream vision composed in
octosyllabic couplets. Upon
falling asleep the poet
finds himself in a gl**** temple...
- giants. The "Albina story"
survives in
several forms,
including the
octosyllabic Anglo-Norman poem "Des
grantz geanz"
dating to 1300–1334.
According to...
-
mediaeval times. Ysopet, an
adaptation of some of the
fables into Old
French octosyllabic couplets, was
written by
Marie de
France in the 12th century. The morals...
-
usually follows the
structure of "cante" that
consist of four or five
octosyllabic verses (coplas) or
musical phrases (tercios). Occasionally, the first...
- the
pages are
developed centred around a title, an
engraving with an
octosyllabic stanza and a neat border. The 178
engravings were not made all at once...
-
Arthur Compton Auchmuty United Kingdom Williams and
Norgate Purgatorio Octosyllabic terza rima 1899–1901
Samuel Home
United Kingdom Woodall, Minshall, and...
- décima in all
Latin America and in
Spain is a
style of
poetry that is
octosyllabic and has 10
lines to the stanza. The
espinela rhyming scheme (ABBAACCDDC)...
- An
early French dramatic play is Le Jeu d'Adam (c. 1150)
written in
octosyllabic rhymed couplets with
Latin stage directions (implying that it was written...
- epileptic, hypnolepsy, hysteroepilepsy, metalepsis, narcolepsy, nympholepsy,
octosyllabic, procatalepsis, prolepsis, proleptic, proslepsis, syllabic, syllabism...
