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Alexandrine   Listen
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Alexandrine  n.  A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. "The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along."





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"Alexandrine" Quotes from Famous Books



... of this century must not be omitted, the dispersion of the great Alexandrine library, collected by the Ptolemies. In the siege of Alexandria by Julius Caesar, the Philadelphian library in the museum, containing some 400,000 volumes, had been burned; but there still remained the "daughter ...
— The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History • Annie Besant


Words linked to "Alexandrine" :   prosody, line of poetry, metrics, line of verse


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