May And Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC AEFGF ABHIH JKLML JNOPO| I | A |
| I wish that when you died last May | B |
| Charles there had died along with you | C |
| Three parts of spring's delightful things | D |
| Ay and for me the fourth part too | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| A foolish thought and worse perhaps | E |
| There must be many a pair of friends | F |
| Who arm in arm deserve the warm | G |
| Moon births and the long evening ends | F |
| - | |
| III | A |
| So for their sake be May still May | B |
| Let their new time as mine of old | H |
| Do all it did for me I bid | I |
| Sweet sights and sounds throng manifold | H |
| - | |
| IV | J |
| Only one little sight one plant | K |
| Woods have in May that starts up green | L |
| Save a sole streak which so to speak | M |
| Is spring's blood spilt its leaves between | L |
| - | |
| V | J |
| That they might spare a certain wood | N |
| Might miss the plant their loss were small | O |
| But I whene'er the leaf grows there | P |
| Its drop comes from my heart that's all | O |
Robert Browning
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