octosyllabic
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of octosyllabic
1765–75; < Late Latin octōsyllab ( us ) (< Greek, equivalent to oktō- octo- + -syllabos syllabic ) + -ic
Vocabulary lists containing octosyllabic
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“Olympic Athletes from Russia” is an octosyllabic mess that’s hard to say and hard to understand.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2018
Metrically varied, the lines are mostly octosyllabic, and that count-of-eight seems fundamental, even where the audible syllable count is less, as in stanza three, line eight.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013
He was not afraid of the octosyllabic word.
From Time Magazine Archive
The salut d'amour is a kind of epistle, sometimes of very great length and usually in octosyllabic verse, the decasyllable being more commonly used in the Chanson.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
French verse, decasyllabic, 177f.; influence on heroic couplet, 187, 190; perfect rime in, 121 n.; regular cesura in, 17, 18; influence on octosyllabic couplet, 154, 160f.,
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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