Sonnet 43

• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways


  Direct addressal, rhetorical question
• I love thee to the depth and breadth and height//my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight


  Spiritual bonds, endless Ness, the abundance and the presence is so large it takes on a physical form
• For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.


  This could suggest that everywhere she goes loves goes with her but could also imply that love to her is elevated and spiritual. The uses of the capital letters emphasize the words. Loves to the end of life and when grace dies, which is never, everlasting love
• I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;


  People strive for justice but she strives for her right to love him
• I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.


  Religious, refers to brother spiritual passion, highlights intensity of her love
• I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints


  She now worships her husband - he has healed her, like saints heal people; the lost saints refers to her father and religious beliefs that she no longer holds. Religious and purity of her love
• Breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.


  Hyperbole, love even more after death, tricolon, consequation-holy, expressive how he love is so intense and it is made with many individual qualities
• Context


  Browning

  Said at weddings

  Wrote to target her fathers lack of approval for her love and marriage

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• Structure


  Sonnet, sestet, octave, rhyme abbacddcefefgg