This is an analysis of Sonnets From The Portuguese Ii by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

UNLIKE are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
   Unlike our uses and our destinies.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0111011101 1011011100 1100110101 1101011101 1101011011 1111010100 1100010101 11101110111 0101011101 1100010111 011010010101 1111010101 0101111101 11110101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

our, unlike

Anaphora

unlike, the