alexandrine in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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His use of the alexandrine poetic line is considered exceptional in its harmony, simplicity and elegance.
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The most common metric lengths are the ten-syllable line (decasyllable), the eight-syllable line (octosyllable) and the twelve-syllable line (the alexandrine).
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It exists in a few extant versions; the latest version comprises 9,078 rhymed alexandrines.
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It is written in alexandrines, arranged in "ottava rima".
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The 191 sonnets that make up this work are written using alexandrines.
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It was composed in twelve-syllabled lines, called after him alexandrines.
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It was written in alexandrines, in five acts, and with choral interludes between the acts.
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