| The Cautionary Tales are in iambic octosyllabic couplets and can run to fifty lines or so. |
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| It is written in stanzas of four octosyllabic lines rhyming a b b a, and is divided into 132 sections of varying length. |
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| By definition, it is a poem with an unlimited number of octosyllabic verses and assonant rhyme in even-numbered verses. |
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| Skelton used the octosyllabic metre, and a rough manner which was to be paralleled in later times by Butler in Hudibras, and by Swift. |
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| His most powerful satirical weapon is his style, the deliberately cumbersome octosyllabic metre and comic rhymes. |
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| The middle of the poem tells the story of the cat's life in seven lines that condense narrative into the shortest of phrases and the most event-filled octosyllabic lines. |
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| In 1924 Phil Stone's financial assistance enabled him to publish The Marble Faun, a pastoral verse-sequence in rhymed octosyllabic couplets. |
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| The second part includes the so-called gotxos: octosyllabic verses that vary according to performer and are sung redoubled. |
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| Chaucer used octosyllabic lines in House of Fame but eschewed iambic rhythm. |
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| Also of French origin was the octosyllabic couplet used in these poems. |
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| The Confessio runs to some 33,000 lines in octosyllabic couplets and takes the form of a collection of exemplary tales placed within the framework of a lover's confession to a priest of Venus. |
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