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Ottava rima
Ottava rima 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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- (8va, also ottava sopra), transpose music up one octave All' ottava b****a (8vb, also ottava sotta), transpose music down one octave Coll' ottava, double...
- this an octave higher than written" (all' ottava: "at the octave" or all' 8va). 8a or 8va stands for ottava, the Italian word for octave (or "eighth");...
- 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...
- Giambattista Marino, Adone, Canto II, stanza 1 (in Italian). Ottava rima at Encyclopædia Britannica. Ottava rima at Poetry Foundation. Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas...
- Charles 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...
- Kalidasan 04:32 "Meesakara Meesakara" Anuradha Sriram Kasthuri Raja 05:08 "Ottava Sinungi" Krishnaraj, Anuradha Sriram Pa. Vijay 04:59 "Pongalukku Vangithanda"...
- developed names 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...
- 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...
- SYMBOL G CLEF U+01D11F 𝄟 MUSICAL SYMBOL G CLEF OTTAVA ALTA U+01D120 𝄠 MUSICAL SYMBOL G CLEF OTTAVA B****A U+01D121 𝄡 MUSICAL SYMBOL C CLEF U+01D122...
- 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...