How To Use Octameter In A Sentence
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I'm going full-out: trochaic octameter (I am too verbose for iambic pentameter) with internal and cross-line rhyme.
MentalPolyphonics
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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.
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It actually disables any understanding of the poem to say that what he’s doing is trochaic octameter.
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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Verses of seven and eight feet are rare; they are called heptameter and octameter, respectively.
English: Composition and Literature
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Verses of seven and eight feet are rare; they are called heptameter and octameter, respectively.
English: Composition and Literature
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The former is trochaicthe 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
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The heptameter is usually divided into a tetrameter and a trimeter; the octameter, into two tetrameters.
English: Composition and Literature
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—“trochaic octameter with lines two and four catalectic.”
THE ANTHOLOGIST
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The former is trochaicthe 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
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The former is trochaicthe 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
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I wrote tons of sonnets, and got really decent at iambic octameter/pentameter.
Mousepoet Diary Entry
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D.), while the latter kind can naturally only occur in those circles whose couplet forms an octameter (A. E.).
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night