Alexandrine definitions

Alexandrine

1) Alexandrian
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Alexandrine

1) English girl name 2) French poetry 3) Line of poetry 4) Line of verse 5) Twelve-syllable line of verse
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An alexandrine is a line of poetic meter comprising 12 syllables. Alexandrines are common in the German literature of the Baroque period and in French poetry of the early modern and modern periods. Drama in English often used alexandrines before Marlowe and Shakespeare, by whom it was supplanted by iambic pentameter (5-foot verse). In non-Anglo-Sa...
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alexandrine

a metrical line of six feet or twelve syllables (in English), originally from French heroic verse. Randle Cotgrave in his 1611 French-English dictionary explains: 'Alexandrin. A verse of 12, or 13 sillables.' In his 'Essay on Criticism,' Alexander Pope says, 'A needless Alexandrine ends the song / That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length al...
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Alexandrine

• (a.) Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. • (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
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alexandrine

verse form that is the leading measure in French poetry. It consists of a line of 12 syllables with major stresses on the 6th syllable (which ... [6 related articles]
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Alexandrine

A twelve-syllable line written in iambic hexameter. Alexandrines were especially popular in French p
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Alexandrine

A metrical line of six feet or twelve syllables (in english), originally from french heroic verse. R
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Alexandrine

Al`ex·an'drine adjective Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. Bancroft.
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Alexandrine

Originally a twelve syllable meter in French prosody. However, the English equivalent is the iambic hexameter - see meter. An example of alexandrine verse is Testament of Beauty by Robert Bridges.
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Alexandrine

In prosody, Alexandrine is the name given, from an old French poem on Alexander the Great, to a species of verse, which consists of six iambic feet, or twelve syllables, the pause being, in correct Alexandrines, always on the sixth syllable; for example, the second of the following verses:
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