Polish poetry

thumb|Alexander the Great in a diving bell: a scene from the line's namesake, the ''Roman d'Alexandre''. Alexandrine is a name used for several distinct types of verse line with related metrical structures, most of which are ultimately derived from the classical French alexandrine. The line's name derives from its use in the Medieval French ''Roman d'Alexandre of 1170, although it had already been used several decades earlier in Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne''. The foundation of most alexandrines consists of two hemistichs (half-lines) of six syllables each, separated by a caesura (a metrical p

thumb|225px|Nowy Świat|Nowy Świat 57, [[Warsaw, birthplace of Skamander. Here, on 29 November 1918, five poets opened the Picador Café.]]

common metrical line in Polish poetry

group of Polish Romantic poets from modern-day Ukraine