OTTAVA RIMA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("ottava rima" is a kind of...):

stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)

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