Strombotto Romagnuolo

This form has the octave constructed from a Sicilian quatrain and a quatrain of two couplets. It still consists of eight strict hendecasyllable lines (11 syllables). This form is used for stand alone poems but can be used for multiple stanzas. When writing muliple stanzas it is usual to link each stanza by either a refrain or using the whole or part of the last line of the previous stanza as the first line of the next stanza: