In syllabic verse, such as that used in French literature, an alexandrine is a line of twelve syllables.

Baudelaire's Les Bijoux ( The Jewels ) is a typical example of the use of the alexandrine in 19th-century French poetry:

In the Restoration and eighteenth century, poetry written in couplets is sometimes varied by the introduction of a triplet in which the third line is an alexandrine, as in this sample from Dryden, which introduces a 6-5-6 triplet after two pentameter couplets:

* Albertus, written in 1831 and published in 1832, is a long narrative poem of 122 stanzas, each consisting of 12 lines of alexandrine ( 12-syllable ) verse, except for the last line of each stanza, which is octosyllabic.

Phèdre ( originally Phèdre et Hippolyte ) is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677.

The last line is in fact an alexandrine — an iambic hexameter, which occurs occasionally in some iambic pentameter texts as a variant line.

* The alexandrine is broken into two six-syllable groups ; each six-syllable group is called a " hémistiche ".

The poem is arranged in a series of 25 alexandrine quatrains with an a / b / a / b rhyme-scheme.

The joke is that un alexandrin can mean both an Alexandrian ( someone from Alexandria, like Edifis ) or an alexandrine, a line of verse with 12 syllables, like the sentence Edifis had just spoken.

* Roman d ' Alexandre ( 1177 )-this romance uses a twelve-syllable verse and is the reason why this verse length is termed alexandrine

English heroic couplets, especially in Dryden and his followers, are sometimes varied by the use of the occasional alexandrine, or hexameter line, and triplet.

Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single ' alexandrine ' line in iambic hexameter.

However, William Wordsworth employed rhyme royal ( slightly modified by an alexandrine in the seventh line ) in " Resolution and Independence ", and notable twentieth-century poems in the stanza are W. H. Auden's Letter to Lord Byron ( as well as some of the stanzas in The Shield of Achilles ) and W. B. Yeats's A Bronze Head.

The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (" décasyllabe "), the eight-syllable line (" octosyllabe ") and the twelve-syllable line ( the so-called " alexandrine ").

The poem has four cantos written in Spenserian stanzas, which consist of eight iambic pentameter lines followed by one alexandrine ( a twelve syllable iambic line ), and has rhyme pattern ABABBCBCC.

Except for lyric passages in these plays, the meter used was a twelve-syllable alexandrine line with a regular pause ( or cesura ) after the sixth syllable.

The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line ( decasyllable ), the eight-syllable line ( octosyllable ) and the twelve-syllable line ( the " alexandrine ").

The oldest extant version of the anonymous Old French chanson de geste Quatre Fils Aymon dates from the late 12th century and comprises 18, 489 alexandrine ( 12 syllable ) verses grouped in assonanced and rhymed laisses ( the first 12, 120 verses use assonance ; critics suggest that the rhymed laisses derive from a different poet ).

The dramatic works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine are typically composed of rhyming alexandrine couplets.

In Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene 8 lines of pentameter are followed by an alexandrine, the eponymous Spenserian stanza.

After Spenser, alexandrine couplets were used by Michael Drayton in his Poly-Olbion.

It has a role in Italian poetry, and a formal structure, comparable to the iambic pentameter in English or the alexandrine in French.

In the 17th century the iambic hexameter, also called alexandrine, was used as a substitution in the heroic couplet, and as one of the types of permissible lines in lyrical stanzas and the Pindaric odes of Cowley and Dryden.

This obscure, but sublimely musical, masterpiece, of 512 alexandrine lines in rhyming couplets, had taken him four years to complete, and it immediately secured his fame.

All 17th-century French plays in verse alternate masculine and feminine alexandrine couplets.

Several sonnets of Du Bellay exhibit what may be called the intense and voluptuous melancholy of the Renaissance more perfectly than anything of his, and the finest passages of the Tragiques and the Divine Sep ' Maine surpass his work in command of the alexandrine and in power of turning it to the purposes of satirical invective and descriptive narration.

In quatrains or improvised quatrains, five-verse stanzas, six-verse stanzas, decasyllables and alexandrine verses, this popular poetry evokes themes related to love, luck, individual fate, and the city ’ s daily narrative.

In 1905 – 1914 Russian architecture passed through a brief but influential period of neoclassical revival ; the trend began with recreation of Empire style of alexandrine period and quickly expanded into a variety of neo-Renaissance, palladian and modernized, yet recognizably classical schools.

Esope à la ville was written in alexandrine couplets and depicted a physically ugly Aesop acting as adviser to Learchus, governor of Cyzicus under King Croesus, and using his fables to solve romantic problems and quiet political unrest.

They were greatly admired by Martin Opitz, who, in translating the poetry of Heinsius, introduced the German public to the use of the rhyming alexandrine.

Vivien de Monbranc ( or Vivien l ' amachour de Monbranc ) has come down to us in only one version, a short work of 1, 100 alexandrine verses composed in the 13th century.

Written over some three decades, the alexandrine verse of this epic poem relies on multiple genres as well as stylistic familiarity with the work of the opposing, Catholic poets of the Pléïade, headed by Pierre de Ronsard.

`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??

Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.

The line is a pretty good one.

And ( D ) all action of a physical kind pertinent to the mission is relegated to the line of men on the lower rank.

`` The Moral Creed '' and `` The Will To Risk '' live happily together, if we do not examine where the line is to be drawn.

But there is no line between France and Germany, that is, no actual line.

`` But if there is no line, how can there be two countries??

It is not in the record, but he must have galloped his horse at Peach Tree Creek when he brought up Ward's guns to save Newton's crumbling line.

In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

It is difficult to draw the line between stereotype and the reality of the jazz musician.

The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

therefore, only with precise foreknowledge of the line frequencies is an astronomical search for the radio spectra of these molecules feasible.

A study of the hydrogen line profiles indicates that a measurement of these profiles can be used to calculate a temperature for the arc plasma that is reliable to about Af percent.

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The company is still broadening its line and is now active on four major fronts.

The symbol for division is a straight line that separates two numbers placed one above the other.

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