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Alexandrine is a name used for several distinct types of verse line with related metrical structures, most of which are ultimately derived from the classical French alexandrine. The line's name derives from its use in the Medieval French Roman d'Alexandre of 1170, although it had already been used several decades earlier in Le Pèlerinage de ...
Czech alexandrine (in Czech český alexandrín) is a verse form found in Czech poetry of the 20th century. [1] It is a metre based on French alexandrine . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The most important features of the pattern are number of syllables (twelve or thirteen) and a caesura after the sixth syllable.
The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme of these lines is ABABBCBCC. [1] [2]
Often called the "classical alexandrine", vers héroïque, or grands vers, it became the dominant long line of French verse up to the end of the 19th century, [7] and was "elevated to the status of national symbol and eventually came to typify French poetry overall". [10] The classical alexandrine is always rhymed.
The last line is in fact an alexandrine—an iambic hexameter, which occurs occasionally in some iambic pentameter texts as a variant line, most commonly the final line of a passage or stanza, and has a tendency, as in this example, to break in the middle, producing a symmetry, with its even number of syllables split into two halves, that ...
Dodecasyllable verse (Italian: dodecasillabo) is a line of verse with twelve syllables.12 syllable lines are used in a variety of poetic traditions. Dodecasyllabic meter was invented by Jacob of Serugh (d. 521), a Miaphysite bishop.
The Spenserian stanza varies from iambic pentameter in its final line, which is a line of iambic hexameter, or in other words an English alexandrine. In the seventeenth century, John Milton experimented by extending the seventh line of the rhyme royal stanza itself into an alexandrine in "On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough" and for ...
In modern Greek poetry hexameter was replaced by line of fifteen syllables. In French poetry alexandrine [9] is the most typical pattern. In Italian literature the hendecasyllable, [10] which is a metre of eleven syllables, is the most common line. In Serbian ten syllable lines were used in long epic poems.