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Sonnet 43′ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Bio | Poems) describes the love that one speaker has for her husband. She confesses her ending passion. It is easily one of the most famous and recognizable poems in the English language.
Let me count the ways” is a sonnet by the 19th-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It is her most famous and best-loved poem, having first appeared as sonnet 43 in her collection Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850).
“How Do I Love Thee?” is the second-to-last sonnet to appear in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous sequence of love poems from 1850, Sonnets from the Portuguese. Browning composed this sequence of forty-four sonnets to memorialize her love for her husband, the fellow poet Robert Browning.
'How Do I Love Thee?' is sonnet number 43 taken from Sonnets from the Portuguese, a book first published in 1850. Elizabeth Barrett Browning chose this title to give the impression that she had translated the work from Portuguese and would therefore avoid any controversy.
Sonnet 43 expresses the poet’s intense love for her husband-to-be, Robert Browning. So intense is her love for him, she says, that it rises to the spiritual level (lines 3 and 4).
Sonnet 43 is an Italian sonnet, a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem written in a specific rhyme scheme. The first line of the poem asks a question; the other thirteen lines answer it. The...
("My little Portuguese" was actually an affectionate nickname that Elizabeth's husband used for her in private.) The sequence is comprised of 44 sonnets, with "How do I love thee?" appearing in the striking position of number 43, or second-to-last, making it an important part of the climax.
