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Definition of Octosyllable
1. Noun. A verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines.
Definition of Octosyllable
1. a. Octosyllabic.
2. n. A word of eight syllables.
Definition of Octosyllable
1. Noun. (poetry) line of verse with eight syllables ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Octosyllable
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octosyllable
Literary usage of Octosyllable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chapters on the Metric of the Chaucerian Tradition by Albert Harp Licklider (1910)
"ORGANIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN octosyllable AND ... and that the octosyllable has
usually kept its serene, prose-accented way, free from the phenomena that ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... which being intended to ridicule the vulgar romances, seems to have been
purposely written in their favourite metre. In the third, or octosyllable ..."
3. Chapters on the Metric of the Chaucerian Tradition by Albert Harp Licklider (1910)
"ORGANIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN octosyllable AND ... and that the octosyllable has
usually kept its serene, prose-accented way, free from the phenomena that ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... which being intended to ridicule the vulgar romances, seems to have been
purposely written in their favourite metre. In the third, or octosyllable ..."
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