How To Use Alexandrine In A Sentence
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Imagine, Chomsky doing an institutional analysis in Alexandrine verse.
Outside the Realm of Poetry
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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.
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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.
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Racine wrote the play in Alexandrine verse.
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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.
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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
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His poetic emblem books in particular, written in alexandrine verse and with a moralizing tone, brought him international renown.
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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
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The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form.
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Julius Caesar, which Voltaire reworked in alexandrines, amplifies the patriotic and republican spirit of the Roman Emperor.
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a poem of twenty thousand lines (to the form of which this romance gave its name -- "alexandrine" verse), the work of Lambert le Tort and
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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Bénabou joins the first hemistich of each line to the second of another: the first alexandrine thus selected is the opening line of Rimbaud's ‘Bateau ivre’.
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The most important editions of romances concerning Alexander are M.chelant's of the great poem from which, according to the most general theory, the "Alexandrine" or twelve-syllabled verse takes its name (Stuttgart, 1846), and M. Paul
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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There are lots of interpolated stories here; there are episodes written in alexandrine verse; and there are enough characters to satisfy even the most hardened devotee of the serial genre.
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Alexandrine -- she is called Alexandrine -- has sent for some money.
Mysteries of Paris, V3
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The more important metrical tests include the following: the frequency of rhyme, whether in the heroic couplet or, as not uncommonly occurs in early plays, in alternates and even such elaborate arrangements as the sonnet; doggerel lines; alexandrines, or lines of twelve syllables; the presence of an extra syllable before a pause within the line; short lines, especially at the end of speeches; the substitution of other feet for the regular iambic movement of blank verse; weak and light endings; and, most valuable, the position of the pause in the line ( "end-stopped" or "run on"), and feminine endings or hypermetrical lines, such as
The Facts About Shakespeare
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Benlowes -- a Cleveland with more poetry and less cleverness, or a very much weaker Crashaw -- uses a monorhymed triplet made up of a heroic, an octosyllable, and an Alexandrine which is as wilfully odd as the rest of him.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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By internal licences -- the mobile cesura, new variations and combinations -- the power of the alexandrine was marvellously enlarged; it lost its monotony and became capable of every achievement; its external restraints were lightened; verse glided into verse as wave overtaking wave.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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Alexandrine, is found again in the collections of poems which followed: Exil (Exile), 1942, and Vents (Winds),
Nobel Prize in Literature 1960 - Presentation Speech
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The chief of the romances concerning him are the great French Roman d' Alexandre of the 12th century, of some 20,000 alexandrines, and the English King Alisaunder of the early 14th century, 8,000 octosyllabic verses.
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Yet there will be found some instances where I have completely failed in this attempt, and one, which I here request the reader to consider as an erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alexandrine in the middle of a stanza.
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It manages a rather difficult metre (the sixain rhymed _ababcc_ and ending with an Alexandrine) without too much of the monotony which is its special danger.
Matthew Arnold
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Bénabou's list has 260 alexandrines, each one divided into hemistichs and printed in two columns.
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There are classical comedies in verse, too, wherein the knavish valets, rakish heroes, stolid old guardians, and smart, free-spoken serving-women, discourse in Alexandrines, as loud as the Horaces or the Cid.
The Paris Sketch Book
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They are today known as Alexandrine Parakeets (Psittacula eupatria).
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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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.
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They are today known as Alexandrine Parakeets (Psittacula eupatria).
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Too many marching alexandrine feet for me, pieds, like the pied in the Pied Piper or the Piedmont, but not impediment, though I once saw a man wearing a pedometer the Lone Ranger had sent him.
Poetic Justice
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The present sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer.
Les Miserables
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Alexandrine, which is not exactly measured by these sons and daughters of song. [
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
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His poem - for all the mellifluousness of its alexandrines - was a lacerating attack upon the proposition that "tout est bien."
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Neither in his sonnets, nor in his various stanzas composed of heroics, nor in what may be called his doggerel metres -- the fatally fluent Alexandrines, fourteeners, and admixtures of both, which dominated English poetry from his time to Spenser's, and were never quite rejected during the Elizabethan period -- do we find evidence of the want of ear, or the want of command of language, which makes Wyatt's versification frequently disgusting.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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It is the old Sothic, or annus quadratus, which became the Alexandrine under the Ptolemies; and which Sosigenes, the
The Land of Midian
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One day I learned in school about an alexandrine--and even today I still remember that an alexandrine was a type of poem some oldtimer wrote honoring Alexander the Great--and how an alexandrine fit a certain pattern based on syllabic time counted by iambs and I'll be damned if I learned where the caesuras go.
Poetic Justice
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He never called her Alexandrine -- it was always Mrs. Trevlyn; and through the long winter evenings, when they were not at some ball or party, and sat by their splendid fireside, he never put his head in her lap, and let her soft fingers caress his hair, as she had seen other husbands do.
The Fatal Glove
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The 6-stress line is called the alexandrine (probably from the name of an Old French poem in this metre).
The Principles of English Versification
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Hear, hear; that's the first thing about poetry I remember learning--the alexandrine verse--its soft and hard accents--"aloft, I laughed.
Surviving Yet Another Day
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But Jonathan's a smart cookie and up on his old-time as well as modern poetry; I saw him discussing the alexandrine in one of his posts.
Surviving Yet Another Day
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Valery adheres to a rhythm of alexandrines in stanza five, yet the lines do not progress in an even manner.
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Alexandrine of Perugia had in her body a right felonous devil, which had so utterly power over her that he made her descend from a rock that stood upon
The Golden Legend, vol. 6
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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.
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a piece, called Pyramus and Thisbe, in five mortal acts, and all written in Alexandrines fully as long as the performers.
An Inland Voyage
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William Carlos Williams' poem is structured into three verses, but it is basically three alexandrine 12-syllable lines, which makes it an extremely easy form to follow.
This Is Just To Say
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Benlowes -- a Cleveland with more poetry and less cleverness, or a very much weaker Crashaw -- uses a monorhymed triplet made up of a heroic, an octosyllable, and an Alexandrine which is as wilfully odd as the rest of him.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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His long attachment to Alexandrine is at odds with his reputation as a misogynist, which is derived from some of his paintings rather than from his copious personal writings.
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It would not have surprised me to learn that I must subtract at least half a dozen syllables from that portentous phrase to reduce it to alexandrine dimensions.
The Guermantes Way
