Without poetry stanzas virtually impossible.Of course, some authors have deliberately resorted to astrofichnosti their works, emphasizing their indivisibility, but at the same time, these verses are not always easy to understand.The most common form of verses - quatrains, but there are five and six and semistishiya, many of these verses have their own names, borrowed from Latin.Octet, or octave - a stanza of eight lines in which the poet holds the whole literary work.Usually, the first line of octave, which often is his name, expressed in the thesis, which was further developed by the author.This kind of stanzas perfectly proves that brevity - the sister of talent.
Rhyme in octave
precise canons in octave rhyme does not exist - here everything is left to the discretion of the author.For example, the classic octave - a Tuscan octave divided usually canonical (rhyme ababbcc) and noncanonical (abcdefgg) - now this form of the poem practically does not occur.Octet Siciliana became in his time one of the favorite tricks of Alexander Blok, his rhymes - abababab - one of the simplest in the versification, but this kind of octets today is not very popular, as the octave, built on the enclosed rhyme.Triolet also enjoy the love poets - in the form of the fourth octet string repeats the first, seventh and eighth - the second (represented as abaaabab).Modern octave - a Cross-rhyme.Most often, so just combine the two quatrains it.
octave in the lyrics
The place octets in poetry you can talk for a long time.What is the octave, already knew Derzhavin and Karamzin, later their experiments with this form of the poem continued Lermontov Pushkin, Bunin and Mayakovsky.It's hard to find lyrics that did not try to prove themselves in writing octets.It is impossible not to note a series of works of Mandelstam, Akhmatova's work, in which the lyrics showed all his talent poetry, expressing their thoughts and feelings in the form of octave.
Conclusion
Surprisingly, the octet appeared at the turn thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, in those days there were only two forms, Sicilian and Tuscan, but it continues to be popular to this day.Octave - the perfect way to express their thoughts in a short while capacious form - this explains the love of poets of different eras to the unusual form of a poem.
