Sonnet XXIX

What are the motifs in Sonnet XXIX by Elizabeth Barrett Browning?

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Growth and renewal are both connected motifs in the poem. The speaker awaits the return of her beloved. Love like nature in spring blossoms with the expectation of his return.

I think of thee!—my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee