This is an analysis of Sonnet Xi: And Therefore If To Love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
And therefore if to love can be desert,
I am not all unworthy. Cheeks as pale…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1110011010 1111010111 11111100111 0101000101 0101011111 011011101 0111010100 0101010110 011110001 1110111111 1101111101 0111010001 0111011101 0111011011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
to
