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But in that exhausted frenzy the young man finally started to write — and ended up with the landmark modernist poem “Easter in New York,” a citywide dirge of darkly beautiful alexandrines.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
When he speaks of "loose alexandrines" he is cracking a scholarly joke, for his careful quantitative measurement makes every line scan perfectly.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would recite his marvelously serpentine and breathlessly amuck alexandrines like a tenor testing the limit of his lungs, terminating at last in a long-awaited gong of rhyme.
From Time Magazine Archive
For other instances of final alexandrines, doubtless used under the general influence of the Spenserian stanza, see the following specimens.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
Cowley was, I believe, the first poet that mingled alexandrines, at pleasure, with the common heroick of ten syllables; and from him Dryden borrowed the practice, whether ornamental or licentious.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
