alexandrines
alexandrines is the plural of alexandrine.
Meaning of alexandrine
Noun
alexandrine (plural alexandrines)
- A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.
- The dominant metre in Les Fleurs du Mal is the twelve-syllable alexandrine, the defining metre of French versification, with the eight-syllable line a distant runner-up and the ten-syllable line barely visible.2005, Rachel Killick, “Baudelaire's versification: conservative or radical?”, in Rosemary Lloyd, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 52
- Synonyms:
- Alexandrian
Noun capitalized: Alexandrines
Alexandrines
- plural of Alexandrine
Questions about alexandrines
- What is alexandrines the plural of?
- Alexandrines is the plural of alexandrine.
- What part of speech is alexandrines?
- Alexandrines is a noun.
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