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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...
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
