Serenade To Ninon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDDEEFFGGHH C| Ninon Ninon what life canst thou be leading | A |
| Swift glide its hours and day succeeds to day | B |
| How dost thou live still deaf to Love's sweet pleading | A |
| To night's fair rose to morrow fades away | B |
| To day the bloom of Spring Ninon to morrow frost | C |
| What Thou canst starless sail and fear not to be lost | C |
| Canst travel without book In silence march to strife | D |
| What thou hast not known love and yet canst talk of life | D |
| I for a little love would give my latest breath | E |
| And if deprived of love would gladly welcome death | E |
| What matter if the day be at its dusk or dawn | F |
| If from another's life our own heart's life be drawn | F |
| O youthful flowers unfold If blown o'er Death's cold stream | G |
| This life is but a sleep of which love is the dream | G |
| And when the winds of Fate have wafted you above | H |
| You will at least have lived if you have tasted love | H |
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| From the French of Alfred de Musset | C |
John L. Stoddard
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