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ottava rima

Italian stanza form composed of eight 11-syllable lines, rhyming abababcc. It originated in the late 13th and early 14th centuries and was established by Giovanni Boccaccio as the standard form for Italian epic and narrative verse. When the form appeared in English, the lines were shortened to 10 syllables. In the 17th–18th century, English ottava rima was written in iambic pentameter and used for heroic poetry. Notably effective in Lord Byron's Beppo (1818) and Don Juan (1819–24), it was also used by Edmund Spenser, John Milton, John Keats, Percy B. Shelley, Robert Browning, and William Butler Yeats.

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ottava
Jan 01, 1996; ottava (It., sometimes abbreviated ‘8va’). Octave. Indications to play a passage an octave higher are all'ottava...
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ottava rima
Jan 01, 2007; ottava rima • beamer , blasphemer, Colima, creamer, dreamer, emphysema, femur, Iwo Jima, Kagoshima, lemur, Lima, oedema (...
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Ottava Piccolo, actress. (SCF1270)
Jan 01, 1997; Ferdinando Scianna Magnum Photos 01-01-1997 Ottava Piccolo, actress. Keywords: framing dominant photographic effect portrait...
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all'ottava
Jan 01, 1988; Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 all'ot|ta|va (l| lo t'v, -v) adj., adv. Musical Direction to be played an octave higher...
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AN ITALIAN SOJOURN
Jan 01, 2008; AN ITALIAN SOJOURN * Tr Settecento * EDILLE 99 (70:51) CASTELLO Sonata ottava in d. STRADELLA Sinfonia in d. MARINI Sonata a due...
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