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Alexandrine
An
alexandrine
is a line of
poetic meter
comprising 12
syllables
. Alexandrines are common in the
German literature
of the
Baroque period
and in
French poetry
of the early modern and modern periods.
Drama
in English often used alexandrines before
Marlowe
and
Shakespeare
, by whom it was supplanted by
iambic pentameter
(5-foot verse). In non-Anglo-Saxon or French contexts, the term
dodecasyllable
is often used.
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