Verlaine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGEAHAAIJDEECKL MNOPEPAQPDP O| The guide was quoting Verlaine to me | A |
| in one gesture of easy fine feeling | B |
| he swept his hand over Paris | C |
| under the rustle of the thin rain | D |
| The verses are irrecoverable | E |
| they ripple like water lit by stars | F |
| 'The sound of it sir is beautiful ' | G |
| I nod I say the sound is beautiful | E |
| Paris forgets Verlaine in vellum | A |
| standing as if by the decree of God | H |
| stiff on the book shelf of the bourgeoisie | A |
| How beautiful it is with gin and lime | A |
| in prospect of a good night of sleep | I |
| that short discreet reading aloud | J |
| Proper to do some honour to Verlaine | D |
| And beautiful | E |
| Beautiful | E |
| But this | C |
| as I remember not as you remember | K |
| belongs to you and I return you it | L |
| Verlaine afflicted you I do not know you | M |
| That misfit of your false pieties | N |
| inflamed with alcohol wrong you remarked | O |
| Am I too hasty You distort your faces | P |
| Beautiful | E |
| It murdered him by inches | P |
| He was assassinated Jeers hit at him | A |
| from the street corners Your kind of | Q |
| morality consumed him to ashes | P |
| Oh tight drum bellies drinking to Verlaine | D |
| these poet murderers are poet quoters | P |
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| Translated by Peter Levi and Robin Milner Gulland | O |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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