octosyllabic

Etymology

octo- + syllabic

adj

  1. Containing eight syllables
    If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […] 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination

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