alexandrine - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • use: Spenser used an alexandrine to end his modified form of ottava rima.

Modifies a noun

  • couplet: Cutting across all this, and looping remorselessly into the footnotes and up again, the line-structure is one of common alexandrine couplets.

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