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It comprises four stanzas inottavarima, each made up of eight ten-syllable lines.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is in three cantos, comprising 107 stanzas ofottavarima.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is written in alexandrines, arranged in "ottavarima".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is in adaptedottavarimaand is full of elaborate use of literary devices, particularly alliteration.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Although only the final two rhymes are different from the much more commonottavarima, the two eight-line forms evolved completely separately.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The poem, written in the "ottavarima" stanza rhythm, consists of 68 cantos and a half.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The poem is divided into forty-six cantos, each containing a variable number of eight-line stanzas in "ottavarima" (a rhyme scheme of abababcc).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This rhyme scheme is known asottavarima.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This scheme is frequently used for declaiming other texts which use an "ottavarima" meter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He and his like are the heroes of much popular verse, written in "ottavarima", and beginning with the traditional epic invocation to the muse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is used in sonnets, in "ottavarima", and in many other works.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some types of more complicated rhyming schemes have developed names of their own, separate from the a-b-c convention, such as theottavarimaand terza rima.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Pushkin's poem opens with a lengthy tongue-in-cheek discussion of the merits ofottavarima.
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