Types Of Poetry:

The BRACE OCTAVE is an eight-line stanzaic poem that uses the following rhyme scheme: abbaabba or abbacddc.

Example by W.B. Yeats

excerpt from Two Songs from a Play

I saw a staring virgin stand
Where holy Dionysus died,
And tear the heart out of his side,
And lay the heart upon her hand
And bear that beating heart away;
And then did all the Muses sing
Of Magnus Annus at the spring,
As though God's death were but a play.