OTTAVA RIMA


Meaning of OTTAVA RIMA in English

Italian stanza form composed of eight 11-syllable lines, rhyming abababcc .

It originated in the late 13th and early 14th centuries and was established by Byron 's Beppo (1818) and Don Juan (1819–24), it was also used by {{link=Spenser, Edmund">Edmund Spenser , John Milton , John Keats , Percy B. Shelley , Robert Browning , and William Butler Yeats .

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.