Alexandrine

How To Use Alexandrine In A Sentence

• Imagine, Chomsky doing an institutional analysis in Alexandrine verse. Outside the Realm of Poetry
• I was baffled by the New Criticism as it was applied in my lit courses (I learned the word "Alexandrine" in order to describe its enigmatic protocols), sunk as a prospective English major by a disastrous attempt at a close reading of Spenser. Site One: A Romantic Education.
• Queneau's Petite Cosmogonie portative, for example, is treated as an example of an Oulipian text although it predates the Oulipo, because it is written in alexandrines.
• Racine wrote the play in Alexandrine verse.
• His earlier work tends to be written in traditional rhymed quatrains but, as he matured, he dropped the rhymes and worked in a freer but still basically alexandrine movement.
• After a brief struggle known as the Alexandrine War, which closed in The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
• His poetic emblem books in particular, written in alexandrine verse and with a moralizing tone, brought him international renown.
• The war in Egypt, usually called the Alexandrine War, arose from Cæsar's resolving to settle the disputes respecting the succession to the kingdom. A Smaller History of Rome
• The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form.
• Julius Caesar, which Voltaire reworked in alexandrines, amplifies the patriotic and republican spirit of the Roman Emperor.