A line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet. A stanza of
eight lines. A metrical line of eight syllables, such as iambic
tetrameter. A verse consisting of eight-syllable lines. An
elaborately composed verse that is enthusiastic in tone. It
often has varying iambic line lengths with no fixed system of
rhyme schemes. It often addresses a praised person or object.
|Odeon or Odeum| A small roofed theater in devoted to the
presentation of musical and poetic works to the public often
competing for prizes. Words used in place of where a reader
should hear sounds. Words such as pop, crackle, snap, whizz,
buzz, zing, etc. The second line is a run-on and requires the
first line of the next couplet to aid in the completion of its
meaning. A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with a
abababcc rhyme scheme. The joining of two words that seem to be
contradictory (opposites), but offer a unique effect such as
living deaths, freezing fires, deafening silence, and pretty
ugly.