[Footnote 1: This poem is composed of hendecasyllabic verses of both classes, with a heptasyllabic verse closing the first stanza, and a pentasyllable verse closing the second stanza. The even verses of each Stanza are agudos and assonanced.] [Footnote 2: This poem may have been inspired by the following lines of Alfred de Musset, describing his experience in Venice. See p. 181, note 1.
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