Poemes Saturniens Prologue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJGGThe Sages of old time well worth our own | A |
Believed and it has been disproved by none | B |
That destinies in Heaven written are | C |
And every soul depends upon a star | C |
Many have mocked without remembering | D |
That laughter oft is a misguiding thing | D |
This explanation of night's mystery | E |
Now all that born beneath Saturnus be | E |
Red planet to the necromancer dear | F |
Inherit ancient magic books make clear | F |
Good share of spleen good share of wretchedness | G |
Imagination wakeful vigorless | G |
In them makes the resolves of reason vain | H |
The blood within them subtle as a bane | H |
Burning as lava scarce flows ever fraught | I |
With sad ideals that ever come to naught | I |
Such must Saturnians suffer such must die | J |
If so that death destruction doth imply | J |
Their lives being ordered in this dismal sense | G |
By logic of a malign Influence | G |
Paul Verlaine
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