External Form, Continued: Sonnet 23 - Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead,
Wouldst thou miss any life in losing mine?
And would the sun for thee more coldly shine
Because of grave-damps falling round my head?

I marvelled, my Beloved, when I read
Thy thought so in the letter. I am thine—
But . . . so much to thee? Can I pour thy wine
While my hands tremble ? Then my soul, instead

Of dreams of death, resumes life's lower range.
Then, love me, Love! look on me—breathe on me!
As brighter ladies do not count it strange,
For love, to give up acres and degree,

I yield the grave for thy sake, and exchange
My near sweet view of Heaven, for earth with thee!

Continuing on my death themed sonnets, Elizabeth B. B. reminds me of Shakespearean poetry, as she was one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era in the early 1800's. Her external structure in ryming is a little odd, as she uses an abba, abba, cdcd, cd pattern, which is less common with sonnets. Her stanzas are normal, with three four-lined stanzas, and a concluding couplet.

Elizabeth writes about how a woman dies for her husband, and wonders if she would appreciate her sacrafice. Once again, This poem has an illusion to dreams as Elizabeth writes of "dreams of death", which relates to Hamlets' sililoquy and-I'm inferring- an influence by Shakespeare. She begs her signifigant other to "love me, Love! look on me—breathe on me!" as she wants him to miss her/depend on her and need her. I get the impression that she wants to feel needed and is looking for companionship or her husband to depend upon her.