octameter

How To Use octameter In A Sentence

• I'm going full-out: trochaic octameter (I am too verbose for iambic pentameter) with internal and cross-line rhyme. MentalPolyphonics
• A fierce opponent of literary plagiarism, Poe claims originality for his stanza form in ‘The Raven’: trochaic rhythm; octameter acatalectic alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in refrain of fifth verse.
• It actually disables any understanding of the poem to say that what he’s doing is trochaic octameter. THE ANTHOLOGIST
• Verses of seven and eight feet are rare; they are called heptameter and octameter, respectively. English: Composition and Literature
• Verses of seven and eight feet are rare; they are called heptameter and octameter, respectively. English: Composition and Literature
• ” The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic. The Philosophy of Composition
• The heptameter is usually divided into a tetrameter and a trimeter; the octameter, into two tetrameters. English: Composition and Literature
• —“trochaic octameter with lines two and four catalectic.” THE ANTHOLOGIST
• ” The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic. The Philosophy of Composition
• ” The former is trochaic—the latter is octameter acatalectic, alternating with heptameter catalectic repeated in the refrain of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrameter catalectic. The Philosophy of Composition