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What is Alexandrine verse?

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Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The ...probably written around 1780, during the reign, in Russia, of Catherine II. The play is in elegant classical Alexandrine verse. As one of numerous paeans to the Muscovite Tsar Peter I and his second wife, Catherine I, commissioned by Catherine...
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