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An ottava rima poem is a form of poetry that, in English, consists of eight iambic lines, usually iambic pentameters, but there is more to an ottava rima. What is ottava rima in poetry (complete definition)?

Premium Member The God Given Universe
Life lives in God's universe of highs, lows, a daily storm through turmoil tough and strong. Where spirits born are strengthened by sharp throes in instances where right is seen as wrong. As trouble’s face of doubt appears, faith...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, god, humanity, life,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Marcus marrow crowd of visitors past midnight
Marcus marrow beaten into a coma after a gang initiation was allowed 17 gang members to visit him in the hospital past midnight crowd of gang members created quite a disturbance a distance from where...Read the rest...
Categories: allah,
Form: Ottava rima



Premium Member With Love
Your warm touch turns me a blossoming flower Your love lit eyes hold the depth of an ocean Your presence, a soft caress in my bower May I stay by you in endless devotion. Through trials of life,...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, happy, love,
Form: Ottava rima

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Premium Member When the Bell Will Chime for me
"Death is the beginning of life as life is the beginning of death ..." ...Read the rest...
Categories: death, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Cause of suffering
The anguish of separation scars our heart, yet the cause of pain is retraced to ego, which believes from existence we stand apart, so the definitive truth we need to know, is who we are, so our inquiry we...Read the rest...
Categories: god, heart, pain, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima



Grief of the Bard
After the end of all the loudest times A poet breathed in yet another breath Finally prepared to present his rhymes About love and hate, even life and death Prepared to give stories with falls and climbs To tell the...Read the rest...
Categories: art, poets,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Eternal Spring
A seedling stirs beneath the dawn’s embrace, Its roots are entwined with whispers from the earth. Each glance exchanged, a sunbeam’s fleeting trace, Ignites the bloom of love—a second birth. The breeze of laughter, soft, adorns the space, While petals...Read the rest...
Categories: spring,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member A Recluse Does Not Embrace Modern Trends
Facebook people I may know, do they know me? If they do they might request to be a friend through our Facebook interface quite easily~ but a recluse does not embrace modern trends, unless you message a most poetic...Read the rest...
Categories: solitude,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member The Subject of Rosebuds
Rosebuds draft in scarlet, crimson, or maroon, dreams to capture the viewer's point of view, as its blossom's sheath their basis to its prune, magnificent achievers rise in rows queue, as the loss of age cast their field of...Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, flower, growth, rose,
Form: Ottava rima
Whispers of the Midnight Forest
beneath the stars where silver rivers flow a lone wolf howls to greet the moonlit sky his shadow dances on the hills below as midnight winds let out a ghostly sigh the forest hums with secrets none may know its...Read the rest...
Categories: nature, night,
Form: Ottava rima
Love scars rima
These memories will never go away, That girl has my soul and my heart she stole. Burdens i carry, haunt me to this day, It seems that even love, will take its toll. I tried and tried to...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, love,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Never Before Seen
In hues orange, pink, red, teal and purple, the sunset skies look quite unique tonight, to laud this hour of summer eternal- pretty as the purple martins in flight! Each hour's new, though they go in a circle; And I'm...Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, color, life, nature,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Weathered Opportunities
Beyond the relics stance tainted feigned glory, the achievers had gifted us their puzzles, speckled based best in their field of theory, like Baia hot baths, can't stomach its guzzles, aloft or cavernous, or in a quarry, like those...Read the rest...
Categories: conflict, history, money, passion,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Looking Up In Awe
I loved to stargaze on a warm Summer's night Living in a country village as a boy The twinkling stars appeared amazingly bright Providing hours of imaginative joy A splendorous, almost spiritual sight Which kids in cities never got to...Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, creation, image, imagery,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Dear Donna
Someone I used to know I saw today. It’s been ten years or more I saw her last although she didn’t live too far away from where I live, but time goes by so fast. How gracious this lady...Read the rest...
Categories: friend,
Form: Ottava rima

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