The Blossom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFCCGGBHII| On a day alack the day | A |
| Love whose month is ever May | A |
| Spied a blossom passing fair | B |
| Playing in the wanton air | B |
| Through the velvet leaves the wind | C |
| All unseen 'gan passage find | C |
| That the lover sick to death | D |
| Wish'd himself the heaven's breath | D |
| Air quoth he thy cheeks may blow | E |
| Air would I might triumph so | E |
| But alack my hand is sworn | F |
| Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn | F |
| Vow alack for youth unmeet | C |
| Youth so apt to pluck a sweet | C |
| Do not call it sin in me | G |
| That I am forsworn for thee | G |
| Thou for whom e'en Jove would swear | B |
| Juno but an Ethiop were | H |
| And deny himself for Jove | I |
| Turning mortal for thy love | I |
William Shakespeare
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