This is an analysis of Love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

We cannot live, except thus mutually
We alternate, aware or unaware,…

Read full poem

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacbbcXdXdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11010111000 1100011101 0101011111 1101010100 1101010100 1100100101 1111010111 1101001111 1101111101 1101110101 01010101011 111110011 1110100101 1101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

we, most, and

Anaphora

we, most