Usage examples (31)

• The usual forms of the couplet used continuously are the 4-stress or short couplet ( "octosyllabic") and the
• My very dear Friend, -- I hear with wonder from Arabel of your repudiation of my word 'octosyllabic' for the two lines in your controversial poem.
• My very dear Friend, ” I hear with wonder from Arabel of your repudiation of my word 'octosyllabic' for the two lines in your controversial poem.
• The poem is long, containing 4136 octosyllabic lines.