Alexandrines

"Alexandrines" -- a blunder, and a serious one, which has often been repeated up to the present day in reference to other writers of the seven-foot verse.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

It's written entirely in Alexandrines -- rhymed couplets

10/22: Le chant du styrene; One, Two, Three Ed Howard 2007

There are classical comedies in verse, too, wherein the knavish valets, rakish heroes, stolid old guardians, and smart, free-spoken serving-women, discourse in Alexandrines, as loud as the Horaces or the Cid.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Alexandrines, and many minstrels have gone before her singing her praises.

Roundabout Papers 2006

There is the old classical drama, wellnigh dead, and full time too: old tragedies, in which half a dozen characters appear, and spout sonorous Alexandrines for half a dozen hours.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Professor Velazquez enjoyed a reputation as a Don Juan; there were those who considered that the sentimental education of a respectable young lady was never complete without a proverbial weekend in some small hotel on the Sitges promenade, reciting Alexandrines tete-a-tete with the distinguished academic.

The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz 2001

A team of six divers led by Jean-Yves Empereur, director of the Centre d'Études Alexandrines, found a mass of amphoras but no sign of the ship's hull, which was probably destroyed on the rocky seabed.

Roman Shipwreck Off Alexandria 1999

The project was temporarily halted, and scholars from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and the French Centre d'Études Alexandrines, led by Jean-Yves Empereur, began searching the waters around the fortress.

Pharos Sculpture Recovered 1996

This taste on his part, and the rhymed Alexandrines in which he wrote tragedy, may together help account for the hyper-heroic style which is Corneille's great fault.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

We ought to say, that La Fontaine boldly broke with the tradition which had been making Alexandrines -- lines of six feet -- obligatory in French verse.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson