This is an analysis of Sonnet Xvii by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes
God set between his After and Before,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbacacXcX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101111101 1101010101 11111101001 00101010011 00011101000 01010101001 1110010111 0100111001 1011110111 1101111111 0101110101 11000110100 0101010111 0111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, to
Anaphora
a
