This is an analysis of Sonnet Xiv: If Thou Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaabbaabcacacX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111110011 0111110111 100101010101 0101010101 1101011101 010101110101 1110010101 0111111111 1010110111 1111010111 0101010111 1101111111 1111111101 1111110100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
her, for
