From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Five five-line stanzas, rhyming a, a, b, a, b, and each followed by a detached couplet, while an additional couplet, also detached, completes the poem.
Translated from Nikrassoff.
First appeared in "Le Monte-Cristo," No. for the 10th of March, 1859.
Is now to be read in Chapter XX XVI II. of the "Impressions de Voyage : En Russie."
