alexandrine

• I have an alexandrine and she's a really good parrot, except now it acts really strange only around me and trys to start regurgitating, and makes all these weird nosies. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• If you've ever longed for the time when Baudelaire could make people faint in the streets by messing with the alexandrine, this is the book for you. —  Home | The New York Observer
• The alexandrine,[3] first seen in the Pθlerinage de Jιrusalem of the early years of the twelfth century, in general indicates later and inferior work. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• Cζsar's passion for Cleopatra in the Romance is the love prescribed to good knights by the amorous code of the writer's day, and Cleopatra herself has borrowed something of the charm of Tristram's Iseult If Julius Cζsar may be styled historical, the ROMAN D'ALEXANDRE, a poem of twenty thousand lines (to the form of which this romance gave its name--"alexandrine" verse), the work of Lambert le Tort and Alexandre de Bernay, can only be described as legendary. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• By internal licences--the mobile cesura, new variations and combinations--the power of the alexandrine was marvellously enlarged; it lost its monotony and became capable of every achievement; its external restraints were lightened; verse glided into verse as wave overtaking wave. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.

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