This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxxi by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Thou comest ! all is said without a word.
I sit beneath thy looks, as children do…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbXXccXcc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010101 1101111101 0011011101 11011011000 11001010111 0111111101 01110010111 11010110000 101001011111 11001111111 01110100101 1101011000 1111010101 1101110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
