alexandrine
a luhg zand reen
- n (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet
- Too often, however, the majestic alexandrine sonorities of De Gaulle's written French sound awkward and even unintelligible in Terence Kilmartin's translation.
- Who is this Frenchman who rates an alexandrine above iambic pentameter and dares insult the memory of William Shakespeare? Self-exiled on the shores of Lake Geneva, Francois .