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The final alexandrine slows the pace still further and adds the last grim thrust.
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The alexandrine, though much his favourite, is not always very diligently fabricated by him.
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Later he would comment: The last sentence is nonsense, but the alexandrine is pretty.
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The triplet and alexandrine are not universally approved.
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But Pope himself condemned the 'needless alexandrine'
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Thus wrote Pope, using for the nonce the triplet and alexandrine by which Dryden frequently varied the couplet.
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Lowell called it "the droning old alexandrine."
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The alexandrine inserted among heroick lines of ten syllables is found in many of the writers of queen Elizabeth's reign.
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The alexandrine was, I believe, first used by Spenser, for the sake of closing his stanza with a fuller sound.
10
It contained 20,000 lines, and was written in twelve-syllabled lines, whence the term ''alexandrine'' verse.
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The 6-stress line is called the alexandrine (probably from the name of an Old French poem in this metre).
12
The finest things in his plays were written in blank verse, as vernacular to him as the alexandrine to the French.
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Keats ends each stanza of 'The Eve of Saint Agnes' with an alexandrine in a style derived from the verse of Edmund Spenser.
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Yet the version is acknowledged to be in the Alexandrine Greek dialect.
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Alexandrine put her hand on the soft hair of the bowed head.
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This marked the first meeting between Alexandrine and Roman pontiffs since 451.