单词 | octosyllabic |
释义 | octosyllabic (once / 67928 pages) adj WORD FAMILY octosyllabic: octosyllabically USAGE EXAMPLESThis is an octosyllabic poem in French verse, written by Ambroise, a Norman trouv�re who followed Richard I. to the Holy Land. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2012) Most of the jongleurs who wrote these merry and indecent tales in octosyllabic verse were persons of less distinction. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) The added length is partly explained by meter: Mandeville's octosyllabic line is less capacious, as a rule, than La Fontaine's flexible one. La Fontaine, Jean de, Aesop Dress'd—Or a collection of Fa...(2010) adj having or characterized by or consisting of eight syllables Syn syllabic consisting of a syllable or syllables |
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