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Ottava Rima
An eight-line stanza rhyming abababcc, used for Italian and English narrative. Not spenserian-stanza as nine lines with alexandrine close, and not rhyme-royal as seven-line Chaucerian stanza.
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An eight-line stanza rhyming abababcc, used for Italian and English narrative. Not spenserian-stanza as nine lines with alexandrine close, and not rhyme-royal as seven-line Chaucerian stanza.