Doma Gurung Discussion 8

The greeting card lyrics in “Why Do I Love You So Much?” and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet “How Do I Love Thee?” both talk about love but use different words and styles. The greeting card as compared to the sonnet uses words that are simple and direct, focusing on love and trust in a relationship. The lines are short and don’t follow a particular pattern, making it sound like a regular conversation. “Because I trust you  more than anyone in the world  to listen, to help me through  to remind me how to laugh  when times are trying”. However, Browning’s sonnet is more complex. It uses fancy words and lots of comparisons to show deep and endless love. It follows a special pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables called iambic pentameter and has a structured rhyme scheme. it sounds like music to the ear. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace” (Browning). Unlike the greeting card the sonnet also uses metaphor such as a simile to compare their love “I love thee freely, as men strive for right”.