\Ot*ta"va ri"ma\ [It. See {Octave}, and {Rhyme}.]
(Pros.)
A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes,
the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two
forming a couplet. It was used by Byron in ``Don Juan,'' by
Keats in ``Isabella,'' by Shelley in ``The Witch of Atlas,''
etc.