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(poetry) A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts. / An Alexandrine parrot or parakeet, Psittacula eupatria.

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alexandrine

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alexandrine

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（詩の用語）12音節からなる詩行。通常、2つまたは3つの等しい部分に分けられる。 / アレクサンドリンオウム、すなわち Psittacula eupatria という種のオウム。

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The poet revised every alexandrine until its cadence felt perfectly natural.

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詩人はそれぞれの十二音節の詩行を、抑揚が完全に自然に感じられるまで何度も推敲した。

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(poetry) A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.

The dominant metre in Les Fleurs du Mal is the twelve-syllable alexandrine, the defining metre of French versification, with the eight-syllable line a distant runner-up and the ten-syllable line barely visible.

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An Alexandrine parrot or parakeet, Psittacula eupatria.

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