How do I love thee? Elizabeth Browning How do I love thee by Elizabeth Browning is a poem 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 question which she has posed in the title and first line - "How do I …
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…objects that are linked with the woman that has left. The last stanza deals with the way in which he tries to erase the memories of his partner by removing these physical objects, however the man finds that he cannot rid him self of these memories because of the scent the woman has left in his pillow. Perhaps what Goodfellow is saying, is that we should not be caught up in physical possessions and traits.