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Alexandrine is a form of French poetry consisting of a line of 12 syllables with major stresses on the 6th syllable and last syllable, but there is more. What is alexandrine in poetry (complete definition)?

Touching lies
,,Actions show what words don't", they say. No, words show what actions don't. Feeling skin to skin lets us flustered and like welcoming someone New home. Wanting to be their New home, and built New home with them,...Read the rest...
Categories: color,
Form: Alexandrine



You Are Still Beautiful
There is a dogwood tree planted in our front lawn. It reveals its beauty with each glorious dawn. It was pretty when young, but lovelier with age. Majestic white flowers, like modeling on stage. You gave your body so...Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member A Tribute to Poets
In lands where words like rivers flow, beneath the moon's serene, soft glow, A scribe with pen in steady grasp, captures life's essence, breath in clasp. Each line breathes life, each word a beat, where hearts and...Read the rest...
Categories: poetry, poets,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member Ense
What good is intelligence If have no common sense Pretence Sitting on a fence Violence Going to war with no defence Offense No supported evidence A jail sentence Recompense False Reverence Nonsence Intolerance Illegal substance Pestilence Past tense No essence No eloquence Incontinence Impotence Excess expense Vengeance False Innocence Artificial intelligence Lavish decadence Inconsiderence Ignorance Exclusiveness Ecsesivnece Unrighteousness Selfishness Insurgence Jeliusness. ...Read the rest...
Categories: conflict,
Form: Alexandrine
Sailin’ Away
(Or, The Whaler) Everybody wants a piece of my action Everyone wants a piece of me Time is money — no satisfaction All I want is to get myself free I became famous — Vulgar and...Read the rest...
Categories: courage, nature, ocean, sea,
Form: Alexandrine



The First Time You Broke Me
**Content warning: depicts abuse (please skip to one of my more lightheaded poems if one needs to). To you, your abuse began as a game or joke, so insidious, so quietly inhumane, a spontaneous, cautionary tale,...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Alexandrine
Lord of the Possible
May my love not fade, despite the passing of day, instead may it grow, like the daffodils of May. Let the trumpets resound, may we praise thee and say, 'Thankyou dear Lord, for you make blue...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, encouraging, endurance, god,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member The Art was Most Masterful on the Dark Canvas
"Monet's paintings are best seen from afar than close up," ... by Poet. Faraway the figment, like Monet the pigment, the brother so gallant, how he flaunts his talent, he paints at a farness, like a horse to...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, beautiful, brother, character,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member Good Advice for Ne'er-Do-Well Naysayers
To suffer the insults of fools is a worthless thing. Dismiss, and disregard, unthinking, tactless fellows; who've nothing else to do, like court jesters of a king, than...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, evil, hate, jealousy,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member The End of the Line
The memories don’t keep, thus loneliness you’ll reap....Read the rest...
Categories: life, memory,
Form: Alexandrine
Wailing Crows
The grey crows light cavern, wailing in web tavern as lemurs juice pattern, sky from earth to Saturn....Read the rest...
Categories: anger, blue, character, destiny,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member Cyclone Chaser
He's a cyclone chaser, cloaked in neon tracer that mirrors stars dying, heartless witches flying...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, myth,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member Evanescence
Immortal lines of loss, immortal lines of tears, I've lived in solitude these long dark, dreary years; in childhood and in youth, I've been baptized by hell; and anointed by heaven (as from a twin spell). In a world...Read the rest...
Categories: dream, life, loneliness, loss,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member Fright
I fell into a swoon under a burning moon, flames setting me alight with a fiery affright...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, environment, feelings, moon,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member A Little Something More
I saw my name written and with its sight smitten, reflected on the door, a little something more....Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, environment, feelings, mystery,
Form: Alexandrine

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