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A verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines
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octosyllable
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Octosyllable \Oc"to*syl`la*ble\, a. Octosyllabic.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context poetry English) line of verse with eight syllables
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllables . It is equivalent to tetrameter verse in iambs or trochees in languages with a stress accent . Its first occurrence is in a 10th-century Old French saint's legend, the Vie de ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines