Poemes Saturniens Prologue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJGG| The 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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