From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Three regular stanzas, each of fourteen lines, the final six forming a refrain, identical in the first two verses, but varying in, the last two lines of the third. The rhymes are arranged a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d, e, f, f, e, g, g.
"Le Comte de Belphégor," a Spanish song; to M. Édouard Beauce. Poem by Alexandre Dumas, music by Ernest Reyner, sung by Édouard Beauce, of the Opéra Comique. Paris, Prilipp, publisher, No. 19 Boulevard des Italiens. Design by Aumont and A. Leroux.
M. Glinel supplies two variants of the refrain : one of nine lines rhyming e, f, f, e, g, g, h, h, i; and the other of eight, rhyming e, f, f, e, g, e, g, g.
