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English
Etymology
From octa- + meter.
Noun
octameter (plural octameters)
- A line of verse containing eight metrical feet
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See also
- (poetic meter) monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter, enneameter, decameter, hendecameter, dodecameter (Category: en:Prosody)
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