octosyllabic

The usual forms of the couplet used continuously are the 4-stress or short couplet ( "octosyllabic") and the

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

My very dear Friend, -- I hear with wonder from Arabel of your repudiation of my word 'octosyllabic' for the two lines in your controversial poem.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

My very dear Friend, ” I hear with wonder from Arabel of your repudiation of my word 'octosyllabic' for the two lines in your controversial poem.

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

It is Marvell, seventeenth-century master of the octosyllabic, whom this last line calls to mind [8]

Susanna Blamire ( 1747-94) 2008

In the past Hollander has been explicit and defiant about this, as in his witty and accomplished imitation of Juvenal's third satire, where New York is substituted for Juvenal's Rome; or in the controlled octosyllabic garrulity of 'Upon Apthorp House' (from Movie-Going, 1962), where he thankfully greets the Hudson recovered after years in the New England wilderness:

Gifts of the Gab Davie, Donald 1975

Elizabethan octosyllabic couplet, of the pleasures of suburban life viewed in moods respectively of light-hearted happiness and of reflection.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Instead they exhibit the typical pseudo-classical traits of matter-of-factness and clearness; also, as Swift's personal notes, cleverness, directness, trenchant intellectual power, irony, and entire ease, to which latter the prevailing octosyllabic couplet meter contributes.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

The six-and-twenty octosyllabic lines thus magisterially denounced by our stern moralist in the middle of the nineteenth century, have had a place in Pope's works for a hundred years, and it is too late now to seek to delete them.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

'Hudibras,' which appeared in three parts during a period of fifteen years, is written, like previous English satires, in rough-and-ready doggerel verse, in this case verse of octosyllabic couplets and in the form of a mock-epic.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Cromwell, wrote much poetry of various sorts, some of it in the Elizabethan octosyllabic couplet.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher