The scheme a b a b b a b a, formed from the simple equal-membered stanza of eight lines a b a b a b a b, it would seem, by inversion of the last two couplets, is rare in Middle English.
Defn: A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet.
Defn: The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
Defn: A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
Eight lines beginning, "Eve saw it placed," at the end of stanza xxviii.
Mr. Dayman and Mr. Longfellow fill up the twenty-eight lines.
Parsons has put Dante's twenty-eight lines of eleven syllables into twenty-four lines of ten syllables; and this without losing a drop of the precious stream he undertakes to pour.
It has but one stanza of eight lines, and I here give it precisely as it stands in this Scottish MS.
Chaucer has not adhered to the complex metre of the original, but uses a stanza of eight lines of five accents in place of de Deguileville's stanza of twelve lines of four accents.
Each Ballad contains three stanzas of eight lines, with the rimes a b a b b c b c, and the rimes of the second and third stanzas are precisely the same as those of the first.
The beak is eight lines in length; the iris is very dark brown; the shanks iron grey.
Six; spreading; oblanceolate; their bases thickened and green or brownish; upper margins sometimes minutely toothed; three to eight lines long.
Two lines long; tapering into a filiform beak six or eight lines long, surmounted by a tuft of silk.
This couplet is followed by eight lines in praise of the word of Sin, expressed however in the second person, not the third.
It is a short hymnal introduction of eight lines, little more than an invocation to the god.
Beside this can be placed the fragment of eight lines, Ramman No.
The hymn consists of thirty-eight lines, and is followed by the petition that the anger of the god may abate and favor be shown the suppliant.
As he offers the libations and burns the perfumes on the altar, the chorus sings the second verse of eight lines, in which the spirits are thanked for answering the prayer and entreated to accept the offerings.
The first verse of the hymn consists of eight lines in praise of the godlike virtues of the ancestors, whose spirits are supposed to descend from Heaven and enter the hall during the singing of this verse by the chorus.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eight lines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
