Definitions for ottava rimaˈri mə
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
otta′va ri′maˈri mə(n.)(pl.)ottava ri•mas.
an Italian stanza of eight lines, each of eleven syllables, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet with a different rhyme.
Category: Prosody
Origin of ottava rima:
1810–20; < It: octave rhyme
Princeton's WordNet
ottava rima(noun)
a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc
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