Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of eight verses or lines.
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Examples
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When they had ranged them each after other in their due places, they found out their sentence, as it is metrified in this octastich:
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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When they had ranged them each after other in their due places, they found out their sentence, as it is metrified in this octastich:
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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When they had ranged them each after other in their due places, they found out their sentence, as it is metrified in this octastich:
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
reesetee commented on the word octastich
A poem or stanza of eight lines.
November 28, 2007