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The octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllables.It is equivalent to tetrameter verse in trochees in languages with a stress accent.Its first occurrence is in a 10th-century Old French saint's legend, the Vie de Saint Leger; [1] another early use is in the early 12th-century Anglo-Norman Voyage de saint Brendan. [2]
A quintilla is a Spanish stanza of five octosyllabic lines. It employs two rhymes and no three consecutive lines may rhyme nor may it end in a couplet.The most common scheme is abaab, but abbab, aabab, ababa and aabba are also permitted.
An earlier anonymous example in Francis Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody (1602), the address of a rejected lover, approximates the form of George Herbert. A cross-rhymed octosyllabic quatrain is supported by three 4-syllabled quatrains which have as base another octosyllabic quatrain. [10] Herbert’s is quantitively different, however.
A lai (or lay lyrique, "lyric lay", to distinguish it from a lai breton) is a lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance. Lais were mainly composed in France and Germany, during the 13th and 14th centuries. The English term lay is a 13th-century loan from Old French lai.
The last line of the first stanza is repeated verbatim (indicated by a capital letter) at the end of subsequent stanzas and the envoi. Example: Algernon Charles Swinburne’s translation “Ballade des Pendus” by François Villon. [1] Rondeau: a mainly octosyllabic poem
The fabliau is defined as a short narrative in (usually octosyllabic) verse, between 300 and 400 lines long, [4] its content often comic or satiric. [5] In France, it flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries; in England, it was popular in the 14th century. [5]
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A traditional kyrielle is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets, which are typically paired in quatrains. [3] Typically, a kyrielle will use the phrase "Lord, have mercy" or a variation as a refrain as the second line of the couplet or last line of the quatrain. However, some kyrielles use other phrases or words for the refrain.