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Definition of Octameter
1. Noun. A verse line having eight metrical feet.
Definition of Octameter
1. n. A verse containing eight feet; as, --
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Definition of Octameter
1. Noun. A line of verse containing eight metrical feet ¹
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Definition of Octameter
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Octameter
Literary usage of Octameter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orthometry: A Treatise on the Art of Versification and the Technicalities of by Robert Frederick Brewer (1893)
"... AND octameter. Normal lines Fourteen and Sixteen Syllables. There are but few
symmetrical poems in these measures, although they have been freely used ..."
2. The Elements of English Versification by James Wilson Bright, Raymond Durbin Miller (1910)
"Where is the peace that awaited my wand'ring, // / At evening the wild woods amang ?
BURNS, Where are the Joys ? THE octameter 21. ..."
3. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"... ionic rhythm, octameter and hexameter. Pax 8 5 6-9 (580), 64: in Aeolic rhythm,
... Aeolic tetrameter and octameter. Vesp. 1335-41 (371), 266: iambic ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Very rarely is the trochaic pentameter verse employed; of the trochaic octameter
an example is had in Tennyson's 'Locksley ..."
5. A Criticism of Systems of Hebrew Metre: An Elementary Treatise by William Henry Cobb (1905)
"Now Ley postulates, to begin with, various kinds of verse—the octameter, ...
The octameter is 4 + 4 tones, or 3 + 2 + 3, or 5 + 3, with several other ..."
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