This is an analysis of Sonnet X by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010001 110010001001 1101111101 1001010111 11010111111 1111111011 11100010110 0100011101 10110111101 01110101010 1111011101 1111010010010 0111110111 11110101010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

i, love

Anaphora

i