Alexandrine

Poetic Line

It comes from the French who don’t believe their language is stressed. As such, their poetry is syllabic, and the Alexandrine is a twelve-syllable line. It is as important to the French as iambic pentameter is to English poetry. In English iambic hexameter is often considered Alexandrine.

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