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Poetry Guide > Forms > Elegiac Octosyllabic
Elegiac octosyllabics consist of iambic tetrameters with the lines rhyming in the scheme abab.1
Examples of elegiac octosyllabics
And on her lover’s arms she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold;
And far across the hills she went,
In that new world which now is old:
Across the hills and far away,
Beyond their utmost purple rim;
And deep into the dying day
The happy princess followed him.
- Lord Tennyson
