octave

Examples

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• PRE-FORMATTED Table 3 Octave band sound levels for traffic accelerating from a stop light in a small business area on a one-way (four-lane) street.

  Academic text (1997)

• Octave Marilly, La Semaine Politique, July 5, 1857, 5.

  Academic text (1997)

• Although Jane says, "I am not thinking, at this early stage, of octave-sestet divisions,"

  Academic text (2013)

• PRE-FORMATTED Table 2: Octave band sound levels for traffic accelerating from a stop light in a small-business area on a two-way (four-lane) street.

  Academic text (1997)

• Octave Marilly wrote in La Semaine Politique in 1857, "The black frock coat and the white cravat render men equal..."

  Academic text (1997)

• Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon (Blacks 333-39), then in the rhymed octave "The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till" (340).

  Academic text (2010)

• In a traditional Petrarchan sonnet, the first part is an octave consisting of eight lines that set up a theme.

• The poet crafted an octave that beautifully depicted the struggle between light and darkness.

• Each octave in the poem contributes to the overall narrative, building emotion and imagery.

Synonyms

V

verse

vsoctave

• Literature

215 3.4

A set of lines in a poem or song

refers specifically to a unit composed of eight lines

S

stanza

vsoctave

• Literature

12 4.4

A group of lines in a poem that form one unit

is specifically a unit made of eight lines

Compounds

M

musical octave

• Specialized

3.6

The gap between two notes where the higher sounds like the same note at a higher pitch

Surface Forms

Etymology