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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 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.
Guigemar, son of a loyal vassal to the King of Brittany, is a courageous and wise knight, who despite his many qualities, has been unable to feel romantic love.One day, on a hunting expedition, he mortally wounds a white hind, but he is injured as well.
He comments that this is matched by the range of verse forms that Tolkien employs, from medieval octosyllabic couplets and Longfellow's trochaic tetrameters to Gilbert and Sullivan's "Modern Major-General's Song" in his poem "Errantry". [5] He writes that poems like "Scatha the Worm" (a dragon) "must be acknowledged as a rare and valuable ...
"Les Deux Amants" (Old French: "Les Deus Amanz", English: "The Two Lovers") is a Breton lai, a type of narrative poem, written by Marie de France sometime in the 12th century.
Guillaume de Lorris completed the first 4,058 lines of le Roman de la Rose circa 1230. Written in Old French, in octosyllabic, iambic tetrameter couplets, the poem was an allegory of what D. S. Brewer called fine amour. [4]
King Alisaunder or Kyng Alisaunder is a Middle English romance or romantic epic in about 4,000 octosyllabic couplets (the length varies between the two main manuscripts). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It tells the story of Alexander the Great 's career from his youth, through his successful campaigns against the Persian king Darius and other adversaries, his ...
The majority of the lines are in octosyllabic couplets, but Byron manages to incorporate various other rhyme schemes as well as meters, including heroic couplets and anapests. Because the plot of The Bride is rather simple when compared to his other works at the time, Byron experiments with the meter and language. [8]