Alexandrine
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Alexandrine is a name used for several distinct types of verse line with related metrical structures, most of which are ultimately derived from the classical French alexandrine. The line's name derive
Alexander the Great in a diving bell: a scene from the line's namesake, the Roman d'Alexandre.
Jean-Antoine de Baïf
Victor Hugo
Title page of Spenser's Faerie Queene (1590/1596)