Mixed rhymes in Verlaine’s “Ariette oubliée VI" provide metrical echoes of an elegy from Banville’s Stalactites. A probable intermediary intertext is a poem that uses similar rhymes by Charles Coran whose “gallant” works have been all but forgotten.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques