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Meanings of alexandrine in English

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Usage of alexandrine in English
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The final alexandrine slows the pace still further and adds the last grim thrust.
The Guardian
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The alexandrine, though much his favourite, is not always very diligently fabricated by him.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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Later he would comment: The last sentence is nonsense, but the alexandrine is pretty.
The informers
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The triplet and alexandrine are not universally approved.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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But Pope himself condemned the 'needless alexandrine'
The Principles of English Versification
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Thus wrote Pope, using for the nonce the triplet and alexandrine by which Dryden frequently varied the couplet.
Brief History of English and American Literature
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Lowell called it "the droning old alexandrine."
The Principles of English Versification
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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.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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The alexandrine was, I believe, first used by Spenser, for the sake of closing his stanza with a fuller sound.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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It contained 20,000 lines, and was written in twelve-syllabled lines, whence the term ''alexandrine'' verse.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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The 6-stress line is called the alexandrine (probably from the name of an Old French poem in this metre).
The Principles of English Versification
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The finest things in his plays were written in blank verse, as vernacular to him as the alexandrine to the French.
Among My Books. First Series
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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.
The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
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Yet the version is acknowledged to be in the Alexandrine Greek dialect.
Companion to the Bible
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Alexandrine put her hand on the soft hair of the bowed head.
The Fatal Glove
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This marked the first meeting between Alexandrine and Roman pontiffs since 451.
The Guardian
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