OTTAVA RIMA

‖Ot‐ta″va ri″ma (?). [[It. See Octave, and Rhyme.]] (Pros.) A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet. It was used by Byron in “Don Juan,” by Keats in “Isabella,” by Shelley in “The Witch of Atlas,” etc.