Italian ottava rima, on the scheme a b a b a b c c.
For it is not, as is sometimes said, derived from the Italian ottava rima (cf.
His longer poems in this kind, in modifications of ottava rima or Spenserian stanza, show Keats' influence very clearly.
He chose for his measure not the Spenserian stanza, nor the ottava rima of Tasso, nor the octosyllables of Scott and the chivalry romances, but the heroic blank verse which Milton had fixed as the vehicle of English classical epic.
Isabella" is in ottava rima, "The Eve of St. Agnes" in the Spenserian stanza.
The First Four Books of the Civil Wars, an historical poem in ottava rima, appeared in 1595.
It is written in alexandrines, arranged in ottava rima.
In the Sacre Rappresentazioni it sometimes interrupted ottava rima, on the occasion of a set discourse or sermon.
It adapted the popular ottava rima to the style of the romantic epic, and fixed it for Pulci, Poliziano, Boiardo, and Ariosto.
Of Ippolito e Leonora we have a prose, an ottava rima, and a Latin version.
As an appropriate vehicle for an Italian story he took the Italian ottava rima or stanza of eight.
From Italy have come, besides the ottava rima and the sonnet, two other metrical forms, the sestina and the terza rima.
One of the commonest 8-line stanzas is that imported from Italy and called ottava rima, abababcc.
This is a single stave of the ottava rima, at the close of the varying metrical forms of Lycidas.
This ottava rima is a familiar Italian stanza made classic by Ariosto and Tasso, and introduced into England by Wyatt, together with the sonnet and other Italian forms.
While beginning, however, with simple terza or ottava rima, the dramatic eclogue gradually became highly polymetric in structure, though it is true that it seldom affected the free measures peculiar to the Arcadian drama.
It is written in somewhat cumbrous ottava rima, and seldom shows any conspicuous power of narrative.
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