noun
definition
A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.
definition
An Alexandrine parrot or parakeet.
Examples of alexandrines in a Sentence
We can trace obligations to Meleager, Theocritus, Apollonius Rhodius and other Alexandrines, and amongst earlier writers to Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus and others.
Bessenyei introduced the use of rhymed alexandrines in place of the monotonous Zrinian measure.
He writes in rhyming alexandrines, and in the latter part of the work uses middle rhymes.
The Hystore was turned into verse (alexandrines) by Jacot de Forest (latter part of the 13th century) under the title of Roman de Julius Cesar.
Wessel, who up to that time had only been known as the president of a club of wits, immediately wrote Love without Stockings (1772), in which a plot of the most abject triviality is worked out in strict accordance with the rules of French tragedy, and in most pompous and pathetic Alexandrines.
To his Leipzig student-days belong also two small plays in Alexandrines, Die Laune des Verliebten, a pastoral comedy in one act, which reflects the lighter side of the poet's love affair, and Die Mitschuldigen (published in a revised form, 1769), a more sombre picture, in which comedy is incongruously mingled with tragedy.
Haquin Spegel (1645-1714), the famous archbishop of Upsala, wrote a long didactic epic in alexandrines, God's Labour and Rest, with an introductory ode to the Deity in rhymed hexameters.
His great epic, Swedish Freedom (1742) was written in alexandrines of far greater smoothness and vigour than had previously been attempted.
The Alexandrines placed her on the throne in succession to her father (58 B.C.).
The Roman de Rou is written in rhyming octosyllables, varied by assonanced alexandrines.