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Alexandrine    音标拼音: [,æləgz'ændrin]
n. 亚历山大诗行,这种形式的诗
a. 同上的

亚历山大诗行,这种形式的诗同上的

Alexandrine
n 1: (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet

Verse \Verse\ (v[~e]rs), n. [OE. vers, AS. fers, L. versus a
line in writing, and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere,
versum, to turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become:
cf. F. vers. See {Worth} to become, and cf. {Advertise},
{Averse}, {Controversy}, {Convert}, {Divers}, {Invert},
{Obverse}, {Prose}, {Suzerain}, {Vortex}.]
1. A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet
(see {Foot}, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
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Note: Verses are of various kinds, as {hexameter},
{pentameter}, {tetrameter}, etc., according to the
number of feet in each. A verse of twelve syllables is
called an {Alexandrine}. Two or more verses form a
stanza or strophe.
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2. Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed
in metrical form; versification; poetry.
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Such prompt eloquence
Flowed from their lips in prose or numerous verse.
--Milton.
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Virtue was taught in verse. --Prior.
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Verse embalms virtue. --Donne.
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3. A short division of any composition. Specifically:
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(a) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
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Note: Although this use of verse is common, it is
objectionable, because not always distinguishable from
the stricter use in the sense of a line.
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(b) (Script.) One of the short divisions of the chapters
in the Old and New Testaments.
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Note: The author of the division of the Old Testament into
verses is not ascertained. The New Testament was
divided into verses by Robert Stephens [or Estienne], a
French printer. This arrangement appeared for the first
time in an edition printed at Geneva, in 1551.
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(c) (Mus.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a
single voice to each part.
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4. A piece of poetry. "This verse be thine." --Pope.
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{Blank verse}, poetry in which the lines do not end in
rhymes.

{Heroic verse}. See under {Heroic}.
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Alexandrine \Al`ex*an"drine\, n. [F. alexandrin.]
A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
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The needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length
along. --Pope.
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Alexandrine \Al`ex*an"drine\ (?; 277), a.
Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. --Bancroft.
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  • Why did the alexandrine become the natural metre for French verse . . .
    The rhythm of a French alexandrine sounds uncannily like a twelve-syllable iambic trimeter in Aeschylus or Sophocles But the strong mid-line break of the French hexameter (wrongly called a caesura) makes it better suited to the epigrammatic short poems of Baudelaire or Verlaine than to great dramatic verse
  • poetry - Accuracy of the translation of Baudelaires Au Lecteur: how . . .
    Surely there is the alexandrine aspect, and due to that we can not have: Sur l'oreiller du mal c'est Satan Trismégiste Qui berce longuement notre esprit enchanté, Et le riche métal de notre volonté Est tout vaporisé par ce savant alchimiste (13 syllables) And we can't either have
  • What is epic caesura in French chansons de geste?
    So “epic caesura” refers to the pause in an epic line, where the first hemistich has an extra syllable, which must be a schwa If the line is a decasyllable, then this means the first hemistich has five syllables rather than the usual four, and if the line is an Alexandrine, then the first hemistich has seven syllables rather than the usual
  • Were all of Shakespeares plays fully in iambic pentameter?
    No In fact, much of the content of Shakespeare's plays isn't even written in verse There's plenty of prose in Shakespeare - indeed, at least one play (Merry Wives of Windsor) is written almost entirely in prose
  • history of literature - Why did iambic pentameter become so standard . . .
    Why did the alexandrine become the "natural" metre for French verse drama, whereas English renaissance drama adopted the iambic pentameter? 21 Were English poets of the sixteenth century aware of the Great Vowel Shift?
  • translation - In Homers Odyssey, how can the one-eyed Cyclops have . . .
    A more modern approach would be to recognize that what we have today as "Homer's Odyssey" is a distillation of several poetic sources, not necessarily all composed by the same person, and edited to some unknown extent by the Alexandrine grammarians by the time the text made its way to us The story might therefore preserve several different
  • meter - Why did Shakespeare write in iambic pentameter? - Literature . . .
    Why did the alexandrine become the "natural" metre for French verse drama, whereas English renaissance drama adopted the iambic pentameter? 16 Why did iambic pentameter become so 'standard' in classical English poetry?
  • french language - How did Maupassants contemporaries respond to his . . .
    It is indeed written in rhyming Alexandrine couplets Here’s how it begins: M Destournelles Madame, qu’est-ce donc que cette masquerade? Je comprends! vous allez jouer quelque charade! Madame Destournelles Vous l’avez dit, monsieur M Destournelles Le costume est charmant
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  • herge - Why has Hergé twice called Dupont and Dupond brothers in the . . .
    Why did the alexandrine become the "natural" metre for French verse drama, whereas English renaissance drama adopted the iambic pentameter? 7 In Les Miserables, why can Javert be the judge of Fantine and why does Monsieur Madeleine have the power to stop him?





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