How do I chicane thee?
Elizabeth Browning
How do I complete thee by Elizabeth Browning is a verse form in which she describes and compares the love for her husband to many things. The poem is a sonnet, a 14 line poem with regular rhythm, rhyme and structure. The poem is delivered in one stanza, in which Browning sets about answering the head which she has posed in the title and first line - How do I love thee?
Although not immediately noticeable this poem has a very rigid rhyme structure. The first viii lines follow an A, B, B A pattern; that is the 1st and quaternary lines rhyme as do the 2nd and third. However at the 9th line the rhyme pattern changes to C, D, C, D; that is the 1st and 3rd lines rhyme, as do the 2nd and 4th.
Lines 2 and 3 evoke that her love is so vast that it cant be measured, and with a teentsy interpretation it can be read that this love consumes her somebody in ...depth and breadth and height. In line 4 toasting uses somewhat religious language to describe her love ...of world and ideal grace. This can be paralleled to mean that thither is a pure and spiritual quality to her love. Her love is sempiternal by sun and candlelight.
The strength of her love is emphasised in lines 9 and 10, these lines also indicate that she has seen sorrow, perhaps even death, wooly saints in her past. However her love is all consuming and seems to remodel her faith in love, a faith that she has perhaps bemused in her childhood.
The last three lines leave the reader with a sense of just how powerful the love this woman is feeling, a love so powerful that...
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