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OP Hey, this is cool (from mav's link): It is the alexandrine (l’alexandrin) or twelve syllable line ( so- called from a 12th Century poem entitled Le roman d’Alexandre) If I ever knew this, I'd forgotten it.
Edit: in French, roman means a novel. So I don't think it could be related to romance languages, right? Or is it? If not, how did the French come to have this word meaning what it means?
Edit 2:
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted rime riche Jackie 03/01/05 02:10 AM Re: rime riche maverick 03/01/05 02:46 AM Re: rime riche Jackie 03/01/05 02:54 AM Re: rime riche wsieber 03/01/05 06:59 AM Re: rime riche Faldage 03/01/05 12:26 PM Re: rime riche TEd Remington 03/01/05 01:32 PM Re: rime riche maverick 03/01/05 04:00 PM Re: rime roolz maverick 03/01/05 04:18 PM alexandrine Jackie 03/02/05 12:54 AM Re: alexandrine Faldage 03/02/05 11:07 AM roman á clef...(is that english?) of troy 03/02/05 11:40 AM Re: alexandrine Jackie 03/03/05 02:42 AM
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