line expresses how physical closeness makes conscious thought unnecessary, showing the speaker’s overwhelming emotional and sensory connection to their beloved.
browning breaks free of her obsessive thoughts and is able to be with her love
“I think of thee! – my thoughts do twine and bud
speaker adresses the poem to lover creating personal intimacy.exclamation mark shows depth of her feelings
poem consists of extended metaphor he is a tree and her thoughts about him are a vine
"my palm tree"
"my" shows dependency on eachother. palm has biblical and exotic connotations, representative of the novelty or timelessness of their love
sonnet form
written in form of a petrachan lover
iambic pentameter + sonnet suggests traditional nature of their love. at times she breaks constraints of iambic pentameter highlighting unconventionality of love and implies how intense her love is : has to express rather than worrying about following love
