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A verse line having eight metrical feet
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octameter
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Octameter in poetry is a line of eight metrical feet . It is not very common in English verse. E.g.: - Trochaic Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly ...
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n. A line of verse containing eight metrical feet
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Octameter \Oc*tam"e*ter\, n. [Cf.L. octameter in eight feet. See Octa- , and meter .] (Pros.) A verse containing eight feet; as, Deep" in|to" the | dark"ness | peer"ing, | long" I | stood" there | wond'"ring, | fear"ing. --Poe. (Chem.) A molecule composed ...
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n. a verse line having eight metrical feet
Usage examples of octameter.
He disdained even standard versification--he wrote with unusual scansions, strange metrics--the harmonies of octameter catalectic, being more rarified, seemed to rise to the lofty ear of God more than could humble iambic pentameter, that endless trudge, trudge, trudge across the surface of the terrestrial globe.
When they passed into a corridor secured even from her, she began to grow intrigued, and more easily ignored the off-key singing of the jester, who was blasphemously describing in ancient octameter certain activities of the goddess Yun-Harla of which Nen Yim-thankfully-had never heard.