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Octave	A stanza comprising of eight lines: -ababbcbc: Chaucer's stanzaic form in The Monk's Tale -abbacddc, or abbaabba: the brace octave. For example, W. B. Yeats' "Two Songs from a Play" -abababcc: see Ottava rima -abaaabab: see Triolet

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