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Cover of pamphlet

6 quatrains abab

5 8-line stanzas, ababcdcd

Poetry

Spring comes less dramatically to Provence. Essay focuses on the appearance of the narcissus: with its scent comes “the Everlasting Past, a rustle of the Wind of Death." The essay references troubadours and love songs; quotes an Old French ballad.

Lyrics of traditional song, with chorus

3-stanza poem; each stanza has four unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter

Two short verses with epigraph: "he loves me - loves me not." The first verse asks "who would not love..." The second verse begins "who would not dream..."

Short Story or Prose Poem

Author's Note: This rendering of the Breton legend ‘Sant Efflamm hag ar Roue Arzur' is based on the ballad of that name given by the late Vicomte Hersart de 1a Villemarqu~ in the Barzaz-Breiz.—i.e., Ballads of Brittany (1839).