The title If Thou Must Love Me, Let Be It For Nought before reading the sonnet creates the love she
feels to him. The title creates curiosity.xit is not a coincidence that the
title is repeated in the first line, those reinforcing the same curiosity. Indeed
all the sonnet is a lyrical investigation about conditions f the love in the
part of the speaking voice. From the title the reader can understand the sonnet
by Elizabeth B. Browning is part of a collection because the title bears the
same first line. The structure consists into 3 quatrains and in to a couplet,
so the sonnet follows the Elizabethan model, the first quatrain introduces the
dialogue between the two lovers: the woman, the speaking voice, and her
husband. She invites him (the poetess uses the imperative) to love her not ONLY
(key word, it stay in the middle of the second line, only remarks/ signals the exclusive thought about love.) for her
ecstatic qualities, but only for the like to love (inner qualities). The entire
remaining sonnet provides the argumentation for man's choice. The invitation is
built on the semantic field the approach between a woman and a man (smile, look, ways of speaking).  The message is immediately clear even the
common reader is reinforced by the direct invitation of the speaker to have been
loved not to use mechanical words like the once covey lines from 3 to 6 exposed
in direct speech. The speaking voice seems to tell her interlocutor the in her
opinion love is not such when you love somebody for her smile - her look - her ways of speaking gentle. The man in
approaching seeing only the heartily qualities, she want he loves her forever,
so he should falls in love for eternal qualities: the main theme discuss is the
courteous love. The second quatrain the ma gives his answer. He want to change,
he wants to love she for her values, her soul. The use of open sounds vowel
creates a sense of distance between the speaking voices: the same distance
between heartily and heavenly things.  The contrast between body and soul (earth versus
heaven) is the main problem of courteous love.