The
octosyllable or octosyllabic verse is a line of verse with eight syllable s. It is equivalent to tetrameter verse in iambs or
Kaynak: Octosyllable(The medieval French romance (roman) was however most often written in 8 syllable (or
octosyllable) verse.) Use of the 10 syllable line
Kaynak: DecasyllableHis most famous work was an Occitan grammar in 35,600
octosyllable s called the Breviari d'amor, begun in 1288. Encyclopedic in length
Kaynak: Matfre Ermengau(modern French Le Tornoiement de l'Antechrist, "The Tournament of the Antichrist "), a 3,546-line Old French poem written in
octosyllable s
Kaynak: Huon de MéryThe author remains anonymous in spite of the eight lines of
octosyllable s placed at the end of the text and which contain the name of the
Kaynak: Les Quinze joies de mariagea late eleventh or early twelfth century Franco-Provençal
octosyllable version of the Alexander story by Albéric de Briançon (itself
Kaynak: Roman d'AlexandreHis most famous Old French work is La Bible au seigneur de Barzil, a poem of 1,029
octosyllable s preaching the reform of the Church .
Kaynak: Hugues IV de Berzéa Proto-Indo-European 7- or 8-syllable line combined with a shorter 5- or 6-syllable line, which is itself derivable from the
octosyllableKaynak: Saturnian (poetry)The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (decasyllable ), the eight-syllable line (
octosyllable ) and the twelve-syllable
Kaynak: Medieval French literatureThe poem comprises 6,664
octosyllable s in rhyme d couplet s. A 15th century prose version also exists. The first modern edition of Cligès
Kaynak: CligèsThe original text, written in
octosyllable s, is preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). It was translated the first time
Kaynak: Girart de RoussillonHis works are Ipomedon and Protheselaus, two long metrical romance s from the 1180s of over 10,000 lines, in
octosyllable s.
Kaynak: Hue de RotelandeIt comprises 6,808
octosyllable s in rhymed couplet s. Two manuscripts are illustrated, Paris BN MS fr. 1433 and Princeton University
Kaynak: Yvain, the Knight of the LionThe extant work only survives in a fragment (two parchment sheets that had been used as a binding of a book) of 661
octosyllable (unusual
Kaynak: Gormond et Isembart