![]() ![]() It is followed by the next section of six lines called a sestet, that forms the ‘answer’ or a counter-view. This will open the the poem with a question or an idea. Italian, where eight lines consisting of two quatrains make up the first section of the sonnet, called an octave. Its rhymes are arranged according to one of the following schemes: It is made up of 14 lines, each being 10 syllables long. This sonnet describes the poet’s passionate adoration for fellow poet and soon-to-be-husband Robert Browning.Ī Sonnet is a poem which expresses a thought or idea and develops it, often cleverly and wittily. Other famous examples of the sonnet sequence include Sir Philip Sydney’s Astrophil and Stella and Shakespeare’s sonnets. ![]() Though she suffered lifelong illness, she married the poet and playwright Robert Browning, who was a major influence on her work, and to whom Sonnet 43 is addressed. “How do I love thee…” (Sonnet 43) is featured in the collection Sonnets from the Portuguese, a sequence of 44 sonnets (published 1850) by Elizabeth Barret Browning, who was a prominent Victorian poet. This is one of the world’s most famous love poems. ![]()
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