sonnet 43 - structure

Question 1

What is the length and rhyme of sonnet 43?

Answer 1

It follows a traditional length of a sonnet with 14 lines but doesn’t follow the traditional sonnet rhyme

Question 2

What does the use of rhyming couplets show?

Answer 2

Perhaps it reflects their relationship - unconventional but close with unity

Question 3

What does Browning use a repetition of? What does this show?

Answer 3

‘I love thee’ It sounds like a prayer so therefore she could be praying that someday they will be together

Question 4

At the beginning of the poem what does she refer to and where does she reinforce this idea agin?

Answer 4

She makes references to her love being limitless and also reinforces this at the end in the last line ‘I shall but love thee more after death’

Question 5

What does the enjambement in this poem create?

Answer 5

A flow which reflects the idea that her love continues and cannot be stopped

Question 6

what is octave?

Answer 6

rhyme scheme of abba (8 lines)

Question 7

what is a sestet?

Answer 7

rhyme scheme if CDCDCD (6 lines)