Alexandrine

al-egz-an′drin, n. a rhyming verse of twelve syllables, six iambic feet, so-called from its use in old French poems on Alexander the Great. It is the ordinary verse of French tragedy. French Alexandrines are arranged in couplets, alternately acatalectic with masculine rhymes, and hypercatalectic with feminine rhymes. Alfa to Anapæst fāte, fär; mē, hėr; mīne; mōte; mūte; mōōn; th en.