Значения термина octosyllabic на английском

The Adarna Bird. The poem is long, containing 4136 octosyllabic lines.

The one competing measure of course is the Hudibrastic octosyllabic.

Before the publication of this work most of the trouvere romances appeared in octosyllabic verse.

The octosyllabic lines-twentyonly-onRedcliff Church, by T.R., show what nice feeling Chatterton had for the delicacies of that florid architecture:-

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.

The usual forms of the couplet used continuously are the 4-stress or short couplet ("octosyllabic") and the 5-stress or heroic couplet ("decasyllabic").

23) has "A Descriptive Poem," on the Lake Country, in octosyllabic couplets, introducing Keswick, Borrowdale, Dovedale, Lodore, Derwentwater, and other familiar localities.