Category:Ottava rima

Ot*ta"va ri"ma. [it. See octave, and rhyme.] (pros.)

Defn: a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, the First six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a Couplet. It was used by byron in "don juan," by keats in "isabella," By shelley in "the witch of atlas," etc.