English May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEEDDE| WOULD God your health were as this month of May | A |
| Should be were this not England and your face | B |
| Abroad to give the gracious sunshine grace | B |
| And laugh beneath the budding hawthorn spray | A |
| But here the hedgerows pine from green to grey | A |
| While yet May's lyre is tuning and her song | C |
| Is weak in shade that should in sun be strong | C |
| And your pulse springs not to so faint a lay | A |
| If in my life be breath of Italy | D |
| Would God that I might yield it all to you | E |
| So when such grafted warmth had burgeoned through | E |
| The languor of your Maytime's hawthorn tree | D |
| My spirit at rest should walk unseen and see | D |
| The garland of your beauty bloom anew | E |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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