This is an analysis of Sonnet 24 - Let The World's Sharpness, Like A Clasping Knife by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
XXIV
Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abbaXbbacdcXcd
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,
- Metre: 1 1011010101 1001011111 0011011111 1111110101 1001001010100 1101110101 1111110101 0101010101 1101010101 0100111101 1100110100 010100111110 1011011101 11011111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15