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Name:Lecturer:Course:Date:An Analysis on the poem “How Do I Love Thee†By Elizabeth BarrettThe poem “How do I Love Thee†by Elizabeth is from the Sonnet from Portuguese, a sequence that this poet had written during her courtship. The poem is a true account of the unconditional and immense love she felt for her husband Robert Browning. The poem is composed as a sonnet of an octave that is followed by a sestet. The rhyme scheme from the first eight lines is A,B,B,A,A,B,B,A the scheme for the other six lines is C,D,C,E,C,E, lines six and seven however do not follow this scheme. All the lines are made up of 10 syllables. In the first part of the poem, there is a there is an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable. The poet uses anaphora or repetition with the words “I love thee†which consequently builds rhythm, yet reinforcing the theme. There is also alliteration, or a repetition of consonants, for instance line 8 has “purely†and “Praise†line 9 has “passion†and “put†and line 8 with “lose†and “loseâ€.01. How do I love thee? Let me count the waysThis first line is a rhetorical question, and she uses it in a way to foreshadow what she is about to explain; her love for her husband Robert. In this poem, the poet is trying to her love to her husband and does this by expressing that she loved him in every imaginable way, and with all her elements. The poet says that the great love which she has for her man was so strong that it fills every pole of her soul.02. I love thee to the depth and the breadth and the height.There is an internal rhyme with the words “depth†and “breadth†and places height between them as to indicate the extent; depth of her love. This is a special way of saying that her love for her beloved is three dimensional. In the real sense, all things that appear in the physical world are three dimensional. Breadth is in other word the width. So she her love was from the east to the west, far across – immeasurable. Height and depth signify the depth, how far up and how far down her love is (Eagleton, 25)03. My soul can...
