The poem, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” by Anne Bradstreet represent both her love for her husband and the Puritan beliefs of love between a married couple. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” are organized into three quatrains composed of four lines each or two sets of rhyming couplets. The poem uses iambic pentameter throughout and occasionally breaks it to emphasize shifts or important ideas in the poem. For example, the line, “The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray,” breaks the pattern to signify a change from the metaphysical conceit to the topic of religious beliefs. The first quatrain of the poem is about Bradstreet and her husband’s love being superior to any other love that ever existed. Additionally, the first line describes
