ALL meanings of ottava rima
ot·ta·va ri·ma
O o - noun plural ottava rima an Italian stanza of eight lines, each of eleven syllables (or, in the English adaptation, of ten or eleven syllables), the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet with a different rhyme: used in Keats' Isabella and Byron's Don Juan. 1
- noun ottava rima a stanza form consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines, rhyming a b a b a b c c 0
- noun ottava rima a stanza of eight lines with the rhyme scheme abababcc: the Italian form has eleven syllables in a line, the English, usually ten iambic-pentameter syllables 0