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octosyllabic
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Octosyllable
The
octosyllable
or
octosyllabic verse
is a
line
of verse with eight
syllables
. It is equivalent to
tetrameter
verse in
iambs
or
trochees
in languages with a
stress accent
. Its first occurrence is in a 10th-century Old French saint's legend, the
Vie de Saint Leger
; another early use is in the early 12th-century Anglo-Norman
Voyage de saint Brendan
. It is often used in
French
,
Italian
,
Spanish
and
Portuguese
poetry. While commonly used in
couplets
, typical
stanzas
using octosyllables are:
décima
, some
quatrains
, redondilla.
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