Eight-liner

An eight Zeiler (also octet ) is in the Verslehre an eight verses existing Strophen- or a poem .

Specific forms are:

• in Celtic poetry: Cyhydedd Hir
• in Old Norse poetry: Dróttkvætt and Fornyrðislag
• in Middle High German poetry: Nibelungenstrophe , derived from Hildebrand's tone and the Heunenweise as its special form
• in Italian poetry: punch and its special form Siciliane
• in French poetry: huitain and triolet

literature

• Horst Joachim Frank : Handbook of the German strophic forms. 2nd Edition. Francke, Tübingen & Basel 1993, ISBN 3-7720-2221-9 , pp. 557-679.
• Fritz Schlawe: The German stanza forms. Systematic-chronological register of German poetry 1600–1950. Repertories on the history of German literature, Vol. 5. Metzler, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-476-00243-8 , pp. 438-466.