From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Two regular four-line stanzas, rhyming a, b, b, a, and followed by a singled rhymed couplet.
A piece of verse dedicated to "Messieurs les Rédacteurs d'el Capricho" (the editors of "The Caprice" ).
It will be found in the "Impressions de Voyage : de Paris à Cadix," Chapter XVII., which was first published in 1847.
The original manuscript of this verse is dated 1846.