Ottava rima

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·- 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.

Related Words

rima
rīma, ae, f. [for rigma, from rig, ringor; hence, that gapes, yawns], I a cleft , crack , chink , ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
rima
rīma ae, f RIC-, a cleft, crack, chink, fissure : angusta, H.: (naves) rimis fatiscunt, V.: tabern...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Rima
·noun A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Terza rima
·- A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language