This is an analysis of Sonnet Xl by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Oh, yes ! they love through all this world of ours !
I will not gainsay love, called love forsooth.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbaXbbacdcdcX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110101 1011111110 1111101101 11111111010 1101110011 1101011111 11010100011 11010101010 0101011111 0101110101 110010011111 0101010111 11011001101 110111011110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
love
Anaphora
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