Comparing Anne Bradstreet's To My Dear And Loving Husband
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The poem “To my Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet is a love poem. She wrote this love poem to profess her undying love for her husband. It is written in the common iambic pentameter lines which establish the rhythm of the poem. She used various different types in the poem to avert the meter from sounding droning. It is in the form of couplets which is artistically embedded with harmonious rhyming scheme that makes it a lyrical poem. In addition, the writer used regular rhythms to ensure that each pair of lines rhymes. For example, “If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can” (290). The couplets in the poem emphasize the theme of love between the writer and her husband. Bradstreet speaks as herself in this