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Ryan, I think the rispetto is two quatrains in iambic tetrameter usually, although it's not prescribed.

On the other hand, a strambotto is hendecasyllabic in stanzas of either 6 or 8 lines.  They're fairly close in time of origin.

by Leanne on June 25 2007