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

Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
Plucked in the garden, all the summer through…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcbcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01011111010 1001010101 1101011011 00111101110 1001101101 1111110101 1111111101 01110111110 0101010111 1111011101 11101011101 11011011111 0111011101 1111111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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