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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Ottava rima

· Ot·ta·va ri·ma · IPA /oʊˌtɑvə ˈɹimə/
01 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…
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    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.(Pros.)