ottava
/oh-tah-vuh; Italian awt-tah-vah/US // oʊˈtɑ və; Italian ɔtˈtɑ vɑ //UK // (əʊˈtɑːvə) //
摄取,承担,摄制,占用
Definitions
adv.副词 adverb
- 1
Music.
- : at an octave higher than written or lower than written. Abbreviation: 8va
Examples
That the ottava rima on the one hand, and the sonnet on the other, may have suggested the idea of it is quite possible.
The ottava rima of the Italians, the natural outcome of Keats's turning to Italy for his story.
Boccaccio's favourite stanza in the Teseide, known as the ottava rima, ends with two lines that form an heroic couplet.
It is in ottava rima, with the translation prefixed to it of the Latin poem Furor Petroniensis.
The plays are almost uniformly written in ottava rima, and poorly printed in double columns.
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