Love is like the stars in the sky. Always there, but not always seen. Some people can feel love deeply; while others know they’re loved they have a harder time feeling it . In “Sonnet 43, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses diction, tone, and structure to display both her literal and metaphorical understandings of love and to elaborate that if the love is real and true it cannot be tampered with. First, E.B Browning writes in a formal, classical style that to me makes her poem feel more personal. For instance, “I love thee with the breath, /smiles, tears of all my life!”(Browning 12-13). Basically, Browning is saying she loves her husband with everything she has. Here we see that Browning is deeply affectionate