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(B) If you paid attention, you've probably noticed that the hemistiches of the third verse are not symmetric. (A) Twice six at a time, twelve syllables per line, (B) That's how I'm used to write, all in Alexandrine. For instance, here is a quatrain, whose rhymes are flats : An improvisation : who knows where it will lead ? (A) With my so French accent, I'm counting in my head. Most commonly, they go together by quatrains (strophes of four Alexandrines). There are also several rules about how Alexandrine are grouped and sequenced (strophes). They can be 'flat', 'crossed', 'embraced', 'redoubled' etc. I bet it's the same set of rules in every languages. Rhyming poems : Again, there are several rules for rhymes. You can put as much Alexandrines as you want, as long as they make sense together. Of an other woman, how could I fall in love ? Three Alexandrines, no internal rhymes, no external rhymes. Never I've seen on Earth so beautiful angel. For instance : The sky of your eyes, is a dream of freedom. It can be a simple sequence of Alexandrines all on a same theme.

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Free forms poems : In free form poems, there is no special rules about rhymes.

Poemes a 4 strophes exemple how to#

I'm just going to show you how to write poems in Alexandrines. In French, we do have several rules, different forms of poetry that I'm not going to describe. It is, of course, absolutely possible to combine several of them to make poems. A single Alexandrine alone can be a large poem. But the more a single Alexandrine contains images and evocations, and the more this Alexandrine is good. They must be pleasant to ear and to pronounce. They must contains a very beautiful and poetical image. But there absolutely must be a caesura ! Single Alexandrines are like Haiku. A comma between the two hemistiches is not compulsory. The caesura (pause) comes naturally between Earth and so. As you can see in this last example, the caesura is not marked by a comma. ) Third example : Never I've seen on Earth so beautiful angel.

etc, given that flying like a bird is a dream, and that the person saying this sentence is probably in love, etc. (Just in case this Alexandrine make no sense in English, its meaning is : I find your blue eyes so beautiful, that when I'm watching them, I think about the sky and about the birds that freely fly in it. Twice 6 feet, a caesura in the middle, and no internal rhyme. For instance (not sure if it actually makes sense in English, neither if it's beautiful) : The sky of your eyes, is a dream of freedom. Second example : What makes a single Alexandrine beautiful is its wording, its rhythm and its poetical meaning. If every Alexandrine were like that, it would be like a poetry of two verses of six feet each ! And that would make, thus, Alexandrines pointless.

But that's not mandatory ! Inter-hemistiches rhymes make a single Alexandrine sound more beautiful, but that's not required. In this example, both hemistiches (packs of 6 syllables) rhyme together. First example : When in English I speak, dictionary I keep.