OTTAVA RIMA


Meaning of OTTAVA RIMA in English

() 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.

Webster's English dictionary.      Английский словарь Webster.