octameter in English
noun
1
a line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet.
Really the only difference is that the terms have been Carrollised and the verse is in octameter instead of pentameter.
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1. Each stanza is constructed from six lines which Poe claimed were a mixture of forms, “octameter Acatalectic” (lines 1 and 3) “octameter catalectic” (lines 2,4, and 5) and “tetrameter catalectic” (line 6) “Octameter Acatalectic:” is a line of eight meters, each meter composed of two poetic feet – …