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Ottava Rima

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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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ottava Rima'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​o/ottava-rima.html. 1828.
 
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