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Ottava rima

Ottava rima Meaning & Definition
Ottava rima Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ottava rima?

[n] a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc

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Ottava rima In Webster's Dictionary

\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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