10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCTASTICH»
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1
The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics
OCTASTICH — see octave. The OCTAVE (octastich, octet, ottavo, sing., ottavi, pi.
) is a stanza of eight lines in any meter or rhyme scheme. The Italian octave,
which must be written in iambic pentameter lines, rhymes ab- baabba — see the
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2
Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry
As the rhymes underscore, the octastich presents a clear-cut division into outer (I,
IW and inner couplets (II, III). Each of these two pairs of couplets contains an
equal number of six nouns with the same bifurcation into four masculines and two
...
3
Selected Writings: Poetry of grammar and grammar of poetry
As the rhymes underscore, the octastich presents a clear-cut division into outer (I,
IV) and inner couplets (II, III). Each of these two pairs of couplets contains an
equal number of six nouns with the same bifurcation into four masculines and two
...
Roman Jakobson, Stephen Rudy, 1981
4
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
... of the length of line. The meter is trochaic. Incidentally, the poem also illustrates
the use of monorhyme (q.v.). octastich. (Gk 'eight rows') A group or stanza of eight
lines. Also huitain. A poem of eight lines. See also OCTAVE. Octateuch.
5
Dictionary of Poetic Terms
253 octastich TAILS, EDITORIAL INTRUSION, MIXED MESSAGE, MOOD PIECE,
OTIOSE, OVERDECORATION, OVERREPETITION, OVERWRITING, and STRAIN
BEHIND THE POEM. See also control in Appendix 1 . obsessive image a ...
Jack Elliott Myers, Don C. Wukasch, 2003
One observes the iambic design in the two marginal lines of the octastich, both of
them with the evocation my mother, and in the final line of both odd couplets,
each of them characterized by an oppositive impetus — in the first case toward,
and ...
Roman Jakobson, Krystyna Pomorska, Stephen Rudy, 1987
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8
Selected Writings: Poetry of grammar and grammar of poetry
As the rhymes underscore, the octastich presents a clear-cut division into outer (I,
IV) and inner couplets (H, III). Each of these two pairs of couplets contains an
equal number of six nouns with the same bifurcation into four masculines and two
...
... and sometimes appears to lose sight of him for a considerable time (4o7-4i18) ;
1 Cf. Cornill's statements: 'The octastich, the eight-line doggerel verse, is the
fundamental metrical form of Jeremiah's poetry.' 'The equality of the individual
lines ...
James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings, 1902
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General introduction to the study of Holy Scripture: the ...
the principles, methods, history, and results of its several departments and of the
whole Charles Augustus Briggs. The triplets are antithetical, line for line, in a
most impressive correspondence of language and thought. VII. The Octastich The
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Charles Augustus Briggs, 1899
