Assertion: french poetry | /r/HasProperty | dominated by the alexandrin
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text: At the time of the prose poem's establishment as a form, French poetry was dominated by the Alexandrin, a strict and demanding form that poets starting with Maurice de Guérin (whose "Le Centaure" and "La Bacchante" remain arguably the most powerful prose poems ever written) and Aloysius Bertrand (in Gaspard de la Nuit) chose, in almost complete isolation, to cease using.