ALEXANDRINE

A line (verse) of poetry containing six iambic feet. See Spenserian stanza.   In English verse, examples of the Alexandrine line (and I do find the term always capitalized) are found in lines from Robert Browning's poem "Fifine at the Fair" --

          If hunger, proverbs say, allures the wolf from wood,
         Much more the bird must dare a dash at something good.

(Both contain six feet.)


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