ottave rime

A form of ottava rima — An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of ottava rima
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