alexandrine
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1. alexandrine - Noun
2. alexandrine - Adjective
Meaning
Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.
A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
All 17th-century French plays in verse alternate single and double alexandrine couplets.
The stanza's main meter is iambic pentameter with a final line in iambic hexameter (having six feet or stresses, known as an Alexandrine ), and the rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc.
His son-in-law, Barthélémy Barou de la Lombardière de Canson (1774–1859), succeeded him as the head of the company, thanks to his marriage with Alexandrine de Montgolfier.
Zola becomes rich and famous; he marries Alexandrine ( Gloria Holden ) and settles down to a comfortable life in his mansion.
In July, Strachwitz married Alexandrine “Alda” Freiin Surma-Jeltsch, who nine months later gave birth to their son.