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Definition of Octameters
1. octameter [n] - See also: octameter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octameters
Literary usage of Octameters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... regarding the unaccented and slightly accented syllables between the tone-beats
as unessential to the meter. Ley has found hexameters, octameters, ..."
2. The Verse of Greek Comedy by John Williams White (1912)
"... triad in iambic rhythm: two protracted octameters with an acephalous protracted
hexameter as epode. See 737. ..."
3. Edward Young in Germany: Historical Surveys, Influence Upon German by John Louis Kind (1906)
"An anonymous translation of Night IV. into trochaic octameters, with rime in
couplets, evidently by the translator of Night I, 1755, qv 50 pp., quarto, ..."
4. Lessing by James Sime (1877)
"... to which, however, he is not so exclusively attached that he does not often
allow octameters and pentameters to slip in among them. ..."
5. The Latin primer by Richard Lyne (1825)
"Victorinus says the same; and that Decameters, there refers to an old anonymous
writer Dc Metris, for as octameters, verses of eight metres, ..."
6. English German Literary Influences: Bibliography and Survey. Pt.I-II. by Lawrence Marsden Price (1919)
"The year 1755 saw a translation in rimed trochaic octameters (Frankfurt) of Night I.
To this was added in 1756 Night IV and in 1759 Night II. ..."
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