/ English Dictionary |
OTTAVA RIMA
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ottava rima" is a kind of...):
stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)