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Octameter in poetry is a line of eight metrical feet. It is not very common in English verse. E.g.: - ''Trochaic'' :Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary :Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- :While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping :As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door :(Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven") ''Iambic'' :I am the very model of a modern Major-General, :I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, :I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical :From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; :I'm very well-acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, :I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, :About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, :With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. :(W.S. Gilbert, "The Pirates of Penzance") ''Dactylic'' :Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendour of winter had passed out of sight, :The ways of the woodlands were fairer and stranger than dreams that fulfil us in sleep with delight; :The breath of the mouths of the winds had hardened on tree-tops and branches that glittered and swayed :Such wonders and glories of blossomlike snow or of frost that outlightens all flowers till it fade :(A. C. Swinburne, "March: An Ode") ==See also== *Trochaic octameter 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Octameter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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