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The 26 pages that link to Alexandrine, each with the reason it gives.

• Charles BaudelaireRelated: Baudelaire often used this established meter while making its rhythms serve unsettling subjects.

• Comédie-FrançaiseRelated: Performers must shape its rhythm and caesura to make verse drama clear and compelling.

• Stéphane MallarméRelated: Mallarmé inherited this prestigious meter and tested how its conventions could be unsettled.

• Pierre CorneilleRelated: Its measured rhythm gives Corneille’s speeches their formal force and balance.

• Jean RacineRelated: Racine uses its measured rhythm to give emotional confrontations formal control.

• Pierre de RonsardRelated: Ronsard helped establish the alexandrine as a major line in French poetry.

• Jean de La FontaineRelated: La Fontaine used varied French verse forms, including alexandrines, to shape fables' voices and rhythms.

• Joachim du BellayRelated: The Pléiade’s formal experiments contributed to the elevation of French verse forms.

• Rubén DaríoRelated: Darío renewed this inherited meter with rhythms and pauses that felt strikingly modern.

• Edmond RostandRelated: Rostand uses the French alexandrine to give his plays their formal, rhythmic speech.

• Leconte de LisleRelated: Its metrical balance suited the monumental, controlled verse associated with his poetry.

• Les Fleurs du malRelated: Many poems use this traditional meter while unsettling its expected balance.

• Théodore de BanvilleRelated: Its demanding meter gave Banville a framework for rhythmic precision.

• Émile VerhaerenRelated: Verhaeren adapted this established French verse form to his forceful rhythms.

• Olavo BilacRelated: Bilac adapted this measured line to the polished sound of Portuguese verse.

• Agrippa d'AubignéRelated: The alexandrine is a key formal tradition for understanding the scale and rhetoric of his epic poetry.

• Alberto de OliveiraRelated: Its measured rhythm is part of the formal vocabulary of Parnassian verse.

• François de MalherbeRelated: His metrical discipline helped make the alexandrine a dominant vehicle for elevated French poetry.

• Paul ScarronRelated: Scarron often turns this prestigious verse form toward deliberately comic subjects.

• André ChénierRelated: The alexandrine was a central formal resource in the poetry Chénier wrote.