The Czech alexandrine is also metrically ambiguous because of its accentuation, which can reflect the rhythms of iambic hexameter, dactylic tetrameter, and combinations thereof.
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Scanning this using an " x " to represent an unstressed syllable and a " / " to represent a stressed syllable would make a dactylic tetrameter like the following:
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Compared with iambic hexameter and dactylic tetrameter, the Czech alexandrine preserves " all " constants between the two, and allows the rhythms of " either " to emerge:
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(Ausonius uses couplets of a dactylic tetrameter " a priore " followed by a hemiepes in " Parentalia " 27, " Te quoque Dryadiam materteram / flebilibus modulis . ")