octosyllabic

How to use octosyllabic in a sentence

• He revived the measure known as dcimas or espinelas, consisting of a stanza of ten octosyllabic lines.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 | Various

• He soon takes up the simple octosyllabic couplet, treated, however, with great freedom.

  The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory | George Saintsbury

• Most of the jongleurs who wrote these merry and indecent tales in octosyllabic verse were persons of less distinction.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 | Various

• The change is marked by a return to blank verse: the previous lines are mostly in octosyllabic couplets.

  Milton's Comus | John Milton

• Dcimas are strophes of ten octosyllabic verses with the rhyme-scheme a b b a a c c d d c.

  Legends, Tales and Poems | Gustavo Adolfo Becquer