Definitions for: Ottava Rima

[n] a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

See Also: stanza