octosyllabique

Le premier, deuxième et cinquième vers devrait être octosyllabique, tandis que le troisième et le quatrième devraient n’avoir que cinq à six syllabes.
The first, second and fifth lines should have eight or nine syllables, while the third and fourth lines should have five or six.
« I-be-ro-a-mé-ri-cain » est un mot octosyllabique.
"I-be-ro-a-me-ri-ca-no" is an octosyllabic word.
Même s'il y a neuf syllabes, le vers est octosyllabique parce qu'il y a une synalèphe.
Even though there are nine syllables in this verse, it is octosyllabic because it contains a synalepha.
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