ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Lord Byron’s use of ottava rima-a form of poetry with an ABABABCC rhyming pattern-in his mock-epic poem Don Juan stems from his belief to deliver seriocomic material. The poem builds up content, alternating rhyming lines then cinches with a facetious end.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ottava rima, or eight-line stanza, was the poetic form favored by the Italian satirical writers of mock-heroic romances. The rhyme scheme of ottava rima, abababcc, is a demanding one and for that very reason encouraged the use of comic rhyme such as Byron employed so extensively in Don Juan.

Detailed explanation-3: -He chose ottava rima – an Italian form in which each stanza has eight lines, with the rhyme pattern abababcc: in other words, there are three sets of alternate rhymes, followed by a final rhyming couplet.

Detailed explanation-4: -Originally an Italian stanza of eight 11-syllable lines, with a rhyme scheme of ABABABCC. Sir Thomas Wyatt introduced the form in English, and Lord Byron adapted it to a 10-syllable line for his mock-epic Don Juan.

Detailed explanation-5: -ottava rima, Italian stanza form composed of eight 11-syllable lines, rhyming abababcc. It originated in the late 13th and early 14th centuries and was developed by Tuscan poets for religious verse and drama and in troubadour songs. The form appeared in Spain and Portugal in the 16th century.