The Blossom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDE FGFGCCHH GIGIJKFF LMLMNNFF OGOGPPQQ| LITTLE think'st thou poor flower | A |
| Whom I've watch'd six or seven days | B |
| And seen thy birth and seen what every hour | A |
| Gave to thy growth thee to this height to raise | B |
| And now dost laugh and triumph on this bough | C |
| Little think'st thou | C |
| That it will freeze anon and that I shall | D |
| To morrow find thee fallen or not at all | E |
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| Little think'st thou poor heart | F |
| That labourest yet to nestle thee | G |
| And think'st by hovering here to get a part | F |
| In a forbidden or forbidding tree | G |
| And hopest her stiffness by long siege to bow | C |
| Little think'st thou | C |
| That thou to morrow ere the sun doth wake | H |
| Must with the sun and me a journey take | H |
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| But thou which lovest to be | G |
| Subtle to plague thyself wilt say | I |
| Alas if you must go what's that to me | G |
| Here lies my business and here I will stay | I |
| You go to friends whose love and means present | J |
| Various content | K |
| To your eyes ears and taste and every part | F |
| If then your body go what need your heart | F |
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| Well then stay here but know | L |
| When thou hast stay'd and done thy most | M |
| A naked thinking heart that makes no show | L |
| Is to a woman but a kind of ghost | M |
| How shall she know my heart or having none | N |
| Know thee for one | N |
| Practice may make her know some other part | F |
| But take my word she doth not know a heart | F |
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| Meet me in London then | O |
| Twenty days hence and thou shalt see | G |
| Me fresher and more fat by being with men | O |
| Than if I had stay'd still with her and thee | G |
| For God's sake if you can be you so too | P |
| I will give you | P |
| There to another friend whom we shall find | Q |
| As glad to have my body as my mind | Q |
John Donne
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