Ottava is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 43 anagrams from letters in ottava (aaottv).
1810-20; Italian: octave
The poem is written in ottava rima, but, very singularly, there is not one double rhyme from beginning to end.
But terza rima, ottava rima, and sonnets are an insufficient disguise for the formlessness of their matter.
There are two ottava rime in Lycidas, one at the close of the Blind Mouths passage and one at the end of the poem.
The piece is written in a mixture of ottava and terza rima, with a variety of lyrics introduced.
From Italy have come, besides the ottava rima and the sonnet, two other metrical forms, the sestina and the terza rima.
So far as can be gathered, the verse appears to have been ottava rima with the introduction of lyrical passages.
Poliziano's Rispetti are written for the most part in ottava rima.
The poem is written in the ottava rime, but in order to preserve the sense intact I have rendered it in blank verse.
Byron had first adopted the stanza in his translation of Pulci's Morgante Maggiore, which is itself in ottava rime.
This is a single stave of the ottava rima, at the close of the varying metrical forms of Lycidas.