Analysis of Sonnet XXXV

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



If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
And be all to me ? Shall I never miss
Home-talk and blessing and the common kiss
That comes to each in turn, nor count it strange,
When I look up, to drop on a new range
Of walls and floors, another home than this ?
Nay, wilt thou fill that place by me which is
Filled by dead eyes too tender to know change ?
That 's hardest. If to conquer love, has tried,
To conquer grief, tries more, as all things prove;
For grief indeed is love and grief beside.
Alas, I have grieved sol am hard to love.
Yet love me--wilt thou ? Open thine heart wide,
And fold within the wet wings of thy dove.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111101 0111111101 1101000101 1111011111 1111111011 1101010111 1111111111 1111110111 11101110111 1101111111 1101110101 0111111111 1111110111 0101011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 623
Words 126
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 476
Words per stanza (avg) 128
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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