octosyllabic in a sentence

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1. In 1866 he published his best-known work, the translation of the " Aeneid " of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Walter Scott.
2. The vast majority of literary production in Old French is in romance ( " roman " ) was usually written in " octosyllabic rhymed couplets ".
3. All Chardon's French poems use pedes and cauda : the " chansons " are decasyllabic, the " jeux partis " octosyllabic.
4. That by Joseph Rodman Drake, written before 1820, is a short lyric in octosyllabics with the message that shared suffering will lead to shared redemption beyond the grave.
5. "The House of Fame " is over 2, 000 lines long in three books and takes the form of a dream vision composed in octosyllabic couplets.
6. His third work is the " Confessio Amantis ", a 30, 000-line poem in octosyllabic narrative frame within which a multitude of individual tales are told.
7. "The Vision of Tundale " was a version in Middle English octosyllabic or short couplets composed by an anyonymous translator around 1400 working from the Anglo-Norman text.
8. Besides such formal productions, he told many light-hearted stories in octosyllabics, some of which are interesting for their employment of Suffolk dialect words, particularly in " The Horkey ".
9. The poem is written in symmetric octosyllables combined to sestinas, with the first lament having 74, the second 56 and the third 92 octosyllabic sestinas, rhyming " ababcc ".
10. It contains more than 70 octosyllabic lines and was published about fifty years after the event by Thimi Mitko, an Albanian folklorist in his book " Bleta Shqip�tare " ( ).