He retained instead the octosyllabic line that had previously been the standard form for English poetry, and wrote it in couplets, rather than in the stanzas he had employed in his previous works.
32.
In southern and eastern Europe, and in countries that derive their tradition from them, ballad structure differs significantly, like Spanish " romanceros ", which are octosyllabic and use consonance rather than rhyme.
33.
The Roman dates from the 12th century ( c . 1150-55 ), and is written, not in the tirades of the " chansons de geste ", but in octosyllabic rhymed couplets.
34.
The stanza of the " polo " is the " cuarteta romanceada ", typical of most flamenco songs and Spanish folklore : four octosyllabic verses, the second and fourth rhyming in assonance.
35.
In the following year Jago published Labour and Genius, or the mill-stream and the cascade , a humorous fable in octosyllabic verse written in memory of William Shenstone and his landscaped grounds at the Leasowes.
36.
These songs are " ancient folk songs, arranged in quatrains of two octosyllabic couplets, which, according to some writers, are composed on a single melody, the variations depending on the individual style of performance.
37.
He wrote in the local West Midland dialect of Middle English and at least two of his works were widely copied and used . " Festial " is a collection of octosyllabic lines and rhyming couplets throughout.
38.
Structurally, the 422-line " Al Aaraaf " has no discernible or consistent poetic rhythm, though the meter resembles a section of octosyllabic couplets then shifts to pentameter couplets with occasional interludes of alternately rhymed trimeter-dimeters.
39.
This is plausible considering that the metrical structure of " sulukan " verses does indeed generally conform to the pattern of octosyllabic couplets, the etymology may have passed into Javanese lore from the work of 19th century Dutch scholars.
40.
In his octosyllabic " Sefer-i h�m�y�n " ( The Felicitous Campaign ) in thirty-three quatrains, he describes his participation in the above-mentioned Battle of Smederevo and gives a realistic account of the suffering it caused.
