The usual forms of the couplet used continuously are the 4-stress or short couplet ( "octosyllabic") and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]

The poem is long, containing 4136 octosyllabic lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

The poem was left unfinished; it is written in octosyllabic couplets, with four accents or beats.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Cromwell, wrote much poetry of various sorts, some of it in the Elizabethan octosyllabic couplet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

English borrowed it from the French octosyllabic verse, and employed it chiefly for long narrative poems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

This is also in octosyllabic verses, and is further remarkable for the opulence of its imagery and its variety of description.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference

Elizabethan octosyllabic couplet, of the pleasures of suburban life viewed in moods respectively of light-hearted happiness and of reflection.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

QUOTATION: The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quotations] Reference

Again, if there is a triple rhyme to an octosyllabic verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]

This is a modernisation in burlesque octosyllabic verse of part of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fielding] Reference

He soon takes up the simple octosyllabic couplet, treated, however, with great freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

This is a modernisation in burlesque octosyllabic verse of part of Juvenal's sixth satire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fielding] Reference

"I knew John wanted couplets, and I chose octosyllabic, because it's the most flexible," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

The change is marked by a return to blank verse: the previous lines are mostly in octosyllabic couplets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Milton's Comus] Reference

"La risa" (1884) is written in redondillas, that is, rhymed quartets of octosyllabic lines de arte menor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Composite: thoughts on poetics & tech] Reference

To them enters a chasqui, or messenger, who describes the result of Rumi-naui's treachery in octosyllabic quatrains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas] Reference

Songs and important speeches are in quatrains of octosyllabic lines, the first and last rhyming, and the second and third.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas] Reference

It is in stanzas, every one an octosyllabic triplet, which you will think odd, and I have not sanguinity enough to defend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]

It is written in twelve-line stanzas of octosyllabic verse, with two sets of rhymes in each stanza arranged aab aab bba bba.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Pearch's "Collection" (VII. 23) has "A Descriptive Poem," on the Lake Country, in octosyllabic couplets, introducing Keswick.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

They are little poems in octosyllabic verses, in which are told the brave deeds of Breton knights for the sake of their lady-love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

It is written throughout in octosyllabic rhyming couplets, with Latin verses interspersed and a Latin marginal summary of the text.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Three kinds of verse are employed in "The Earthly Paradise": the octosyllabic couplet; the rime royal, which was so much a favourite with.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

The metre of the poem proper is iambic, that is, with the accent on the even syllables, and octosyllabic, or eight syllables to the line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Lake] Reference

As apposite to this, I may quote what he elsewhere says of octosyllabic verse: "The thought can turn itself with greater ease in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

The original is in octosyllabic lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas] Reference

Facility of the octosyllabic verse, 550.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference

His soliloquy is in the octosyllabic quatrains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas] Reference