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Huppert is the only performer who speaks, delivering Racine’s alexandrine verse to an empty stage — or, in one scene, to a washing machine.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Many of his poems take the form of sonnets, and many employ the twelve-syllable alexandrine, the meter of classical French tragedy.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016

Too often, however, the majestic alexandrine sonorities of De Gaulle's written French sound awkward and even unintelligible in Terence Kilmartin's translation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who is this Frenchman who rates an alexandrine above iambic pentameter and dares insult the memory of William Shakespeare?

From Time Magazine Archive

It has been said that the excellence of the twelve-syllabled verse used in this romance was the origin of the term alexandrine.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various