(1) His most powerful satirical weapon is his style, the deliberately cumbersome octosyllabic metre and comic rhymes.(2) By definition, it is a poem with an unlimited number of octosyllabic verses and assonant rhyme in even-numbered verses.(3) The middle of the poem tells the story of the cat's life in seven lines that condense narrative into the shortest of phrases and the most event-filled octosyllabic lines.(4) He spoke in the octosyllabic verse of the Confessio.(5) Meyer's version employs a spare free verse that is very Ibsenish, even though Ibsen composed here in rhymed octosyllables !
