Alexandrine

[,ɑ:lig'zændrain]

Definition

(noun.) (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet.

Editor: Percival--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.

(n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.

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Definition

n. a rhyming verse of twelve syllables six iambic feet so-called from its use in old French poems on Alexander the Great. It is the ordinary verse of French tragedy. French Alexandrines are arranged in couplets alternately acatalectic with masculine rhymes and hypercatalectic with feminine rhymes.

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