Laurel · Poems by form and metre

Poems in ottava rima

Eight lines rhyming ABABABCC: Ariosto's and Tasso's stanza, and in English the stanza of Byron's Don Juan and Yeats's Sailing to Byzantium. Below, every poem or stanza on Laurel whose rhyme scheme and length are exactly this form.

82 poems on Laurel

  1. On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  2. The Question Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  3. The Witch of Atlas Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  4. To Mary Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  5. Canto V Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  6. Canto IV Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  7. Canto VI Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  8. Canto VIII Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  9. Canto II Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  10. Canto I Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  11. Canto X Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  12. Dedication Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  13. Canto VII Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  14. Canto IX Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  15. Canto XIV Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  16. Canto XI Lord Byron, Don Juan · ABABABCC
  17. The Monk of Casal-Maggiore Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  18. The Birds of Killingworth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  19. Canto I Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  20. Canto II Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  21. Canto XXI Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  22. Canto III Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  23. Canto IX Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  24. Canto V Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  25. Canto XII Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  26. Canto VII Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  27. Canto IV Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  28. Canto XL Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  29. Canto XXXII Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  30. Canto XLV Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso · ABABABCC
  31. Twentieth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  32. Fourteenth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  33. Twelfth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  34. Eighteenth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  35. Fifteenth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  36. Sixteenth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  37. Tenth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  38. Fifth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  39. Seventeenth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  40. Eighth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  41. Ninth Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  42. Second Book Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered · ABABABCC
  43. The Deserted Garden Alan Seeger, Poems · ABABABCC
  44. In the Concluding Part of a Discourse on Fame Jean Ingelow, Divided, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  45. The Evening Wind William Cullen Bryant, Poems · ABABABCC
  46. An Oriental Apologue James Russell Lowell, Poems · ABABABCC
  47. Part Second James Russell Lowell, Poems · ABABABCC
  48. Part First James Russell Lowell, Poems · ABABABCC
  49. To Richard Wagner Sidney Lanier, Poems · ABABABCC
  50. A Moorish Tale Thomas Hood, Poems · ABABABCC
  51. Love Thomas Hood, Poems · ABABABCC
  52. A Friendly Address to Mrs. Fry in Newgate Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  53. A Moorish Tale Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  54. A Sea-Side Sketch Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  55. A Venetian Story Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  56. And the Little Unknown Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  57. Eclogue III. To the Lady Maria De La Cueva, Countess of Ureña Garcilaso de la Vega, The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega · ABABABCC
  58. Book V: Metre II Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy · ABABABCC
  59. From Uhland George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  60. Morgante Maggiore (Canto I) Luigi Pulci · ABABABCC
  61. New Year's Eve: A Waking Dream George MacDonald, A Microcosm in Terza Rima, and Other Poems · ABABABCC
  62. The Cat Harry Graham, Verse and Worse · ABABABCC
  63. The Meeting Friedrich Schiller, The Poems of Schiller: Third Period · ABABABCC
  64. To Goethe Friedrich Schiller, The Poems of Schiller: Third Period · ABABABCC

The first 64 of 82 poems, best-known poets first. The rest are reachable through their poets.

Each poem's metre was measured from its own words by the method described here; the figure beside a poem is the share of its stressed syllables that fall on the beat. Forms are named from the rhyme scheme and line count together.