octosyllabic

[ ok-toh-si-lab-ik ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

1765–75; < Late Latin octōsyllab ( us ) (< Greek, equivalent to oktō- octo- + -syllabos syllabic ) + -ic

He revived the measure known as dcimas or espinelas, consisting of a stanza of ten octosyllabic lines.

He soon takes up the simple octosyllabic couplet, treated, however, with great freedom.

Most of the jongleurs who wrote these merry and indecent tales in octosyllabic verse were persons of less distinction.

The change is marked by a return to blank verse: the previous lines are mostly in octosyllabic couplets.

Dcimas are strophes of ten octosyllabic verses with the rhyme-scheme a b b a a c c d d c.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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