Usually means: Eight metrical feet per line.
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  1. octameter: Merriam-Webster
  2. octameter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. octameter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. octameter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. octameter: Vocabulary.com
  6. octameter: Wordnik
  7. octameter: Wiktionary
  8. octameter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. octameter: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Octameter, octameter: Dictionary.com
  11. Octameter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Octameter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. octameter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. octameter: Rhymezone
  15. Octameter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. octameter: FreeDictionary.org
  17. octameter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. octameter: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. OCTAMETER: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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Definitions from Wiktionary (octameter)

▸ noun:  A line of verse containing eight metrical feet

Similar:
heptameter, hexameter, tetrameter, octonarius, pentameter, decametre, hexametre, octapody, tetrametre, octosyllable, more...

Opposite:
pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, tetrameter, trimeter

Types:
iambic, trochaic, dactylic, anapestic, spondaic, more...

Phrases:
Trochaic octameter, more...

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Similar:
heptameter, hexameter, tetrameter, octonarius, pentameter, decametre, hexametre, octapody, tetrametre, octosyllable, more...

Opposite:
pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, tetrameter, trimeter

Types:
iambic, trochaic, dactylic, anapestic, spondaic, more...

Phrases:
Trochaic octameter, more...



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