OTTAVA RIMA
It is an
Italian stanza of eight 11-syllable lines, with a rhyme scheme of AB AB AB CC. Mostly
the poets use Iambic meter in Ottava Rima. Sir Thomas Wyatt introduced
the form in English, and Lord Byron adapted it to a 10-syllable line for his
mock-epic Don Juan. W.B. Yeats used it for “Among School Children” and
“Sailing to Byzantium.”
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