Analysis of Sonnet 44 - Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)



Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
Plucked in the garden, all the summer through
And winter, and it seemed as if they grew
In this close room, nor missed the sun and showers.
So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these thoughts which here unfolded too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart's ground. Indeed, those beds and bowers
Be overgrown with bitter weeds and rue,
And wait thy weeding; yet here's eglantine,
Here 's ivy!—take them, as I used to do
Thy fowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colors true,
And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine.


Scheme ABBAABBABCBCBC
Poetic Form
Metre 0111111010 1001010101 0100111111 01111101010 10011111110 1111110101 0111011101 11110111010 101110101 011101110 11101111111 11001111111 0111111101 0111111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 645
Words 125
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 501
Words per stanza (avg) 121
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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