The Adarna Bird. The poem is long, containing 4136 octosyllabic lines.
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The one competing measure of course is the Hudibrastic octosyllabic.
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Before the publication of this work most of the trouvere romances appeared in octosyllabic verse.
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The octosyllabic lines-twentyonly-onRedcliff Church, by T.R., show what nice feeling Chatterton had for the delicacies of that florid architecture:-
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It is a tale of a mouse, in seven octosyllabic couplets, "The Needless Alarm," remarkable only for an unexpected correctness in rhyme, rhythm, and reason.
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The usual forms of the couplet used continuously are the 4-stress or short couplet ("octosyllabic") and the 5-stress or heroic couplet ("decasyllabic").
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23) has "A Descriptive Poem," on the Lake Country, in octosyllabic couplets, introducing Keswick, Borrowdale, Dovedale, Lodore, Derwentwater, and other familiar localities.