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"Alexandrine"
Keywords:
iambic
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hexameter
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verse
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syllable
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twelve
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Hexameter
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Iambic pentameter
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Dactylic
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Double dactyl
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Tetrameter
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Ottava rima
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Pentameter
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Blank verse
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Feminine rhyme
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Distich
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Heroic couplet
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Villanelle
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Sestet
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Iambic
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Stanza
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Sestina
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Quatrain
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Sapphic
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Couplet
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Terza rima
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Pantoum
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Sher
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Trochee
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Rondel
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Triolet
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Clerihew
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Dactyl
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Iamb
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Petrarchan sonnet
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Internal rhyme
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Verse
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Rhyme royal
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Envoi
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Scansion
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Free verse
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Foot
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Trochaic
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Lai
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Shakespearean sonnet
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Envoy
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A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
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iambic hexameter, a line of six metrical feet, often rhythmically broken in the middle. (Examples: 1.2.146, 176, 180; 1.5.93; 3.3.73)
uh.edu
a line of verse that has six iambic feet
wordnet.princeton.edu
a metrical verse of iambic hexameter - a line of six feet or measures, each of which has two syllables with the stress on the first beat
4that.info
Another name for iambic hexameter. See meter. An example of alexandrine verse is Testament of Beauty by Robert Bridges.
poetsgraves.co.uk
A line of poetry that has 12 syllables. The name probably comes from a medieval romance about Alexander the Great that was written in 12-syllable lines.
infoplease.com
A twelve syllable (or six feet-hexameter) iambic line. Example
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Keywords:
alexandrian
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alexandria
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belonging
Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.
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Keywords:
poetic
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meter
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line
a line of poetic meter
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