| His most powerful satirical weapon is his style, the deliberately cumbersome octosyllabic metre and comic rhymes. |
| Skelton used the octosyllabic metre, and a rough manner which was to be paralleled in later times by Butler in Hudibras, and by Swift. |
| By definition, it is a poem with an unlimited number of octosyllabic verses and assonant rhyme in even-numbered verses. |
| Green's poems, written in octosyllabic metre, were published after his death. |
| The Cautionary Tales are in iambic octosyllabic couplets and can run to fifty lines or so. |
| The second part includes the so-called gotxos: octosyllabic verses that vary according to performer and are sung redoubled. |
