This is an analysis of Sonnet 40 - Oh, Yes! They Love Through All This World Of Ours! by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aXbaXbbacdcdcX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,14,
  • Metre: 1 1111110101 1011111110 1111101101 11111111010 1101110011 1101011111 11010100011 11010101010 01010100111 0101110101 110010011111 0101010111 11011001101 11011101110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

love, and

Anaphora

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