Crossword-Solution: OCTOSYLLABLE 12 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Sometimes there is a double rhyme instead of a single, making seven syllables, though not altering the rhythm; and sometimes this is extended to a full octosyllable.

The metre which was his favourite, and which he used with most success--the trochaic dimeter catalectic of seven syllables--lends itself almost as readily as the octosyllable to this frequently fatal fluency; but in Wither's hands, at least in his youth and early manhood, it is wonderfully successful, as here:-- "And sometimes, I do admire All men burn not with desire.

Benlowes--a Cleveland with more poetry and less cleverness, or a very much weaker Crashaw--uses a monorhymed triplet made up of a heroic, an octosyllable, and an Alexandrine which is as wilfully odd as the rest of him.

His introduction is in the strict octosyllable, with only such licences of slur or elision-- 'The pi | _tying Duch_ | ess praised its chime,' '_He had played_ | it to King Charles the Good'-- as the greatest precisians might have allowed themselves.

Moreover, though Ellis ought not to have called the octosyllable 'the Hudibrastic measure' (which is only a very special variety of it), he was certainly right in objecting to its great predominance in unmixed form here.