This is an analysis of Sonnet 11 - And Therefore If To Love Can Be Desert by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
XI
And therefore if to love can be desert,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abbXabbXcdcdXd
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,
- Metre: 1 1110011010 1111010111 11111100111 01010001010 0101011111 011011101 0111010100 01010100010 0111010001 1110111111 1101111101 0111010001 01110111010 0111011011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
to, i
Anaphora
to
