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Ottava rima
Ottava rima
is a poetic stanza form. Each stanza consists of eight
iambic
lines following the rhyme scheme "a b a b a b c c." The form was most notably used in Italian epic poetry by
Ludovico Ariosto
and
Torquato Tasso
.
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