This is an analysis of Sonnet 35 - If I Leave All For Thee, Wilt Thou Exchange by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
XXXV
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abbaabXacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,
- Metre: 1 0111111101 1010111101 1111010101 1101011101 1111011011 0111010110 1111111110 1111110011 11100010111 0101111111 1101011101 0111111101 11100110111 1101011011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
and, grief, to
