Sonnets from the Portuguese

The metrical composition by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I cope Thee? Let Me Count the Ways is a list of complete. It is possible the close to famous of her poems and is part of the collection from Sonnets from the Portuguese. These poems are all based from rhyming schemes from Portuguese poems (Holloway 2008). The poem itself is uniform a list, describing the extent of that love by comparing it to other emotions and settings. The use of intemperate is extremely important as the poem is non a rhyming poem scarce corresponding sounds are used.It is these sounds and words that create a mood, atmosphere or limn to display love as more than an abstract felling but into a vision. Words paint a limn of love. It manages to paint a picture of love and compare it to other feats of strength, such as as hands strive for right. Striving for right is a in truth mesomorphic concept as the struggle to do right is challenging and fraught with perils. Many times the person will no t watch over in that right on the first try but will succeed with hard work and perseverance.This can be just ilk a form of love, a come throughing love that grows with hard work. Other truly strong images are used to portray love. Imagine all of your smiles and tear and condense all of the feelings that caused those smiles and tears from a lifetime into unrivalled felling, love. It is nearly overwhelming to imagine. The sounds used in the poem also paint a picture as a lot of fricative consonants are utilized. clamant consonant, f, v, the th in the, the th in length, s, z, the ch in check, the g in beige, and h are formed by having a slight demeanor flow restriction in your throat.These consonants use air in the sound and are much softer sounding or muffled compared to other consonants like stop plosives or hard consonants (Wall, J. , et al. 1990). The key words in the text, love, thee, depth, breadth, height, soul, reach, sight, sun, candle-light, freely, strive, right, p assion, faith, smiles, life, goal all use fricative consonants. The use of similar vowel sounds in these words, like light, height, sight, candle-light etc also help to produce a natural flow to the lines.It does not produce a rhythm such that is used with iambic pentameter but it does create a style unto itself. The sounds, such as fricative consonants as well as the repetitive vowel use produce a gentle sounds that are also mirrored in some of the presented text. Yes the poem itself portrays a very intense and consuming love, a love to last lifetimes, but the words and sounds also produce a gentle love, one that you can wrap around yourself al nearly like a preferred childhood blanket.The words, quiet, candle-light, Grace, and faith produce a softer picture, almost like looking at at a photo that might be slightly forth of focus. The form of this poem and rhyming used, which result sin the same vowel comb9inations is most likely due to Portuguese poems as it was found that mos t of the poems in Sonnets from the Portuguese were based move out of Portuguese rhyming schemes (Holloway 2008). It would be most interesting to see which scheme this poem was based off of and how close the vowel sounds are related.It is quite clear that the author intellection very closely about the language and words used in the poem. The use of words with softer sounds as well as repetitive vowels correct the poem lovely to speak as well as paint a graceful feeling of love, using sounds and descriptions of intense emotions. It is a beautiful intense poem. If it was written for a specific person than I wish that individual was able to appreciate this love as the poem very clearly explains the intensity of that love.This love can be romantic, for your family or friend. No matter what the love it is clear that it is very powerful as love always is. filename extensions Holloway, J. B. , Aureo Annello association, The Elizabeth Barrett Browning Website, 1997-2008, http//www. fl orin. ms/ebbwebsite. html, accessed June 10, 2008 Wall, J. , Caldwell, R. , Gavilanes, T. , and Allen, S. , Diction for Singers, A Concise Reference for English, Italian, Latin, German, French and Spanish Pronunciation, PSt, 1990