Structure

• Browning uses repetition of ‘ I love thee’. This sounds similar to a prayer so therefore she could be praying/hoping that someday they will be able to be together.
• At the beginning of the poem she makes references to her love being limitless and she also reinforces this at the end in the last line ‘I shall but love thee more after death.’
• Sonnet 43 is the length of a traditional sonnet (14 lines) but doesn’t follow the traditional sonnet rhyme scheme. There are rhyming couplets yet the poem avoids a perfect rhyme scheme. Perhaps this reflects their relationship – unconventional but with close unity.