| Only occasionally does Tennyson manage to make his lines avoid this tendency and make the octameter seem the only possible way of setting the verses. |
| Really the only difference is that the terms have been Carrollised and the verse is in octameter instead of pentameter. |
| Zhukov uses rhyme-linked couplets in which the initial lines are in iambic hexameter and the closing lines are in iambic octameter. |
| The poetic and the prosaic divide Paul's attention as he talks about anything from trochaic octameter to mowing his lawn. |
| Observe, she has quitted her octameter trochaics again, and taken to plain blank verse, a sign, perhaps, that she is getting weary of the whole Classical concern. |
| The most common of the long lines that appeared around the beginning of the twentieth century is the trochaic octameter, generally containing fifteen or sixteen syllables. |
