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Originally Posted by Alex Pepple
Hey Glenn, just jumping in to clarify that the original isn’t really tetrameter—it’s written in alexandrins, the classical French twelve-syllable lines (with the e muet counted where metrically valid). This is the standard meter of formal French verse, and the line is typically divided by a strong caesura after the sixth syllable.
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Thanks for clueing me in,
Alex. It helps to know how to pronounce the original (which, not knowing the rules, I was butchering pretty badly).
Glenn