Read the poem by elizabeth barrett browning. xxv a heavy heart, beloved, have i borne from year to year until i saw thy face, and sorrow after sorrow took the place of all those natural joys as lightly worn as the stringed pearls, each lifted in its turn 5 by a beating heart at dance-time. hopes apace were changed to long despairs, till god's own grace could scarcely lift above the world forlorn my heavy heart. then thou didst bid me bring and let it drop adown thy calmly great 10 deep being! fast it sinketh, as a thing which its own nature doth precipitate, while thine doth close above it, mediating betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. is the poem rhymed or unrhymed? rhymed unrhymed

This poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) is a sonnet; that is a poem made of fourteen lines. This sonnet is a rhymed one.

Explanation:

This sonnet is made of fourteen lines all together, which is one of the aspects of Browning's sonnets. This is a different kind of sonnet when compared to the famous Shakespearean sonnets (made of four stanzas with three lines each, and one stanza with only two lines). This poem is different only in this sense, once the other aspects of a sonnet can be found, such as the expression of feelings and the subjectivation of the speaker. As stated above, there are rhymes in this sonnet, but not altogether. The rhymes are present in the second and third lines ("face" and "place"), fourth and eighth lines ("worn" and "forlorn"), sixth and seventh lines ("apace" and "grace"), ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth lines ("bring", "thing", and "meditating"), and twelfth and fourteenth lines ("precipitate" and "fate"). Most of the rhymes are connected by the same phonemes, but others are not. Although the first line seems to rhyme with the fourth, it does not because "borne" is only a half rhyme for the fourth line ending with "worn".