Elizabeth Barrett Browning’S “How Do I Love Thee?”
Submitted by madnotes on May 20, 2008
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’S “How Do I Love Thee?”
“How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is a sonnet with regular rhyme and rhythm. A sonnet is a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter, with the theme frequently being one of love, or related to love.
Throughout the poem she compares the love of her husband to the love of God, making this poem an extended metaphor. The line “My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight” is an example of personification, as is the line “I love thee with the breath, /Smiles, tears, of all my life!” The phrase “I love thee” is an example of a refrain because it occurs repeatedly in a pattern throughout the poem.
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