ottava rima

1. 1.

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

   Broaderstanza

Questions about ottava rima

What does ottava rima mean?

ottava rima means "a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc".

Is ottava rima a common word?

ottava rima is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.