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It’s dizzying — nearly 22,000 lines of octosyllabic Old French couplets.

Metrically varied, the lines are mostly octosyllabic, and that count-of-eight seems fundamental, even where the audible syllable count is less, as in stanza three, line eight.

It is composed in octosyllabic verses, which rhyme in couplets; each verse presenting to the student some useful Chinese notion, either in morals or in general knowledge.

Ron′del, a form of French verse, earlier than the rondeau, consisting of thirteen octosyllabic or decasyllabic lines on two rhymes—practised by Charles of Orleans, &c.;

This is an octosyllabic poem in French verse, written by Ambroise, a Norman trouv�re who followed Richard I. to the Holy Land.