Without stanzas, poetry is almost impossible. Of course, some authors deliberately resort to the astrophic nature of their works, emphasizing their indivisibility, but at the same time, such verses are not always easy to read. The most common form of stanzas is quatrains, but there are five-, six- and seven-standers, many of these stanzas have their own names borrowed from Latin. An octet or eight-piece is a stanza of eight lines in which the poet contains a whole literary work. Usually in the first line of the eight-letter, which is most often its name, the thesis is expressed, which is further developed by the author. This kind of stanza proves perfectly that brevity is the sister of talent.
Rhyme in the eighties
There are no clear-cut canons of rhyming in the octave - here everything is left to the discretion of the author. For example, the classic eight-poem is the Tuscan octave, usually divided into canonical (with the rhyme ababbcc) and non-canonical (abcdefgg) - now this form of poem is practically not found. The Sicilian octet became at one time one of Alexander Blok's favorite tricks, his rhyme - abababab - is one of the simplest verses, but this type of octet is also not very popular today, like the eight-poems built on a ring rhyme. Trioletes also do not enjoy the love of poets - in this form of octets the fourth line repeats the first, seventh and eighth - second (represented as abaaabab). The modern octave is a cross-rhyme. Most often, poets simply combine two quatrains in it.
Eight-Poetry in Lyrics
One can talk about the place of octets in poetry for a very long time. What is the eight-poem, Derzhavin and Karamzin already knew, later their experiments with this form of poem were continued by Lermontov and Pushkin, Mayakovsky and Bunin. It is difficult to find the lyrics that did not try to try their hand at writing octets. One cannot fail to note the whole cycle of Mandelstam’s works, the work of Akhmatova, in which these lyrics showed their full talent for versification, expressing their thoughts and feelings in the form of eight-poems.
Conclusion
It is surprising that the octet appeared at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, in those distant times there were only two of its forms, Sicilian and Tuscan, but it continues to be popular to this day. Eight-hundredth is an ideal way to express your thoughts in a short and at the same time capacious form - this explains the love of poets from different eras to this unusual form of poem.