It weeps in my heart (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Verlaine
- First Published: 1874
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Suffering, France or French people, Music or musicians, Pain, Loneliness, Songs or songwriters, Rain, Heart
The Poem
“It weeps in my heart” is actually the first line of an untitled work in the group of poems called “Ariettes oubliées” (“Forgotten Melodies”). This sixteen-line poem, composed of hexasyllabic quatrains in the original French, contains a very musical rhyme scheme known as rimes croisées, or what might be noted as the following pattern: abaa, cdcc, eaee, fdff. The epigraph, “It rains gently on the town,” attributed to Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine’s companion and literary confrere, is not found among Rimbaud’s known body of work, and...
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