A Sonnet about unrequited love

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Hey, thanks for sharing this poem. I think it is good, especially if you are new to writing, to pick an poem topic such as unrequited love. Something that is one of the most profoundly difficult and bittersweet things we can go through, and also a subject which has been written about for time immemorial (to get ideas for how to push the genre further). I liked how you used metaphor (the blanketing of snow, a winter's day) and stuck to that one metaphor throughout. I think that can be very effective, and helps the poem cohere. One thing I felt was that some of your rhymes felt forced- by that I mean, it felt like you changed how someone or yourself would normally express a thought in order for it to end on the rhyming word. You might try experimenting with unrhyming poems, or poems that blend rhyming with unrhyming passages, to see if that helps with adding rhymes only when they don't take away from the overall flow of the poem. Good job and thank you!