OTTAVA RIMA


Meaning of OTTAVA RIMA in English

add. ·- 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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