This is an analysis of Xxiii by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Is it indeed so ? If I lay here dead,
Wouldst thou miss any life in losing mine ?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0001101111 1111010101 1101111101 0101110111 11001010111 1110010111 1110111111 1111011101 01011011101 1111111111 1101011101 1101110101 1101111101 11110101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, my, love, me
