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jamesjiao
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0 posted 2004-07-20 10:45 PM

Gidday to all,

Can anyone explain to me how an Alexandrine is constructed? Has any poet ever used this verse structure? and what exactly is a Caesura?

thanks

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Sunshine
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1 posted 2005-02-24 06:10 AM

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/alexandrine.html

Maybe this link will answer your questions, James.
Laoha
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2 posted 2005-04-23 09:43 AM

Man, it took me a while to find my way into the workshop.

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