6/28/2023 0 Comments Sonnets from the portuguese 14It is used by the poet not just to praise the subject but has also focused on the intellectualism of what love should be. The word ‘love’ has been repeated for at least ten times in the poem. It seems like she is not happy with the present idealism of her man. The poem is more about the lady’s opinion about how her man should love her. Moreover, the sonnet seems like a discussion by the both parties about their relationship. She had put forth a quotation, an argumentation by a lover presented in a form of sonnet. The poet has used dialogue in the sonnet. The fusion of these two conventions adds unity to the sonnets and seems to echo the unity of the couple portrayed in the poem. This sonnet If Thou Must Love Me is a combination of Petrarchan and Shakespearean conventions. The rhyme scheme in this sonnet is abba/abba/cdc/dc. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem with a normal rhyming pattern in iambic pentameter. The poem If Thou Must Love Me is a sonnet. All her sonnets revolve around her intense love for her would-to-be husband Robert Browning. The sonnets have been very popular since their publication.Įlizabeth Browning was a Victorian poet whose poetry was very popular in England as well as in the United States. Sonnets from Portuguese is a collection of 44 sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning during the years 1845-1846 and published in 1850.
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