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Noun(1) (prosody(2) a line of verse that has six iambic feet

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(1) 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.(2) His poetic emblem books in particular, written in alexandrine verse and with a moralizing tone, brought him international renown.(3) The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form.(4) 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.(5) Julius Caesar, which Voltaire reworked in alexandrines , amplifies the patriotic and republican spirit of the Roman Emperor.(6) Racine wrote the play in Alexandrine verse.(7) Valery adheres to a rhythm of alexandrines in stanza five, yet the lines do not progress in an even manner.(8) 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 .(9) Bu00e9nabou's list has 260 alexandrines , each one divided into hemistichs and printed in two columns.(10) 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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