This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxxv: If I Leave All For Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
And be all to me? Shall I never miss…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111111101 1010111101 1111010101 1101011101 1111011011 0111010110 1111111110 1111110011 1100010111 0101111111 1101011101 01111111101 1111110111 1101011011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, to, love, grief
