Usually means: Poetic form, eight-line stanzas.
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  3. ottava rima: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. OTTAVA RIMA: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. ottava rima: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ottava rima)

noun:  (poetry) An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).

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