What is the plot of the poem

Sonnet 43” is a love poem written from the perspective of a woman to her lover. It is written in iambic pentameter and follows the Italian sonnet tradition in the style of Petrarch. A Petrarchan sonnet contains 14 lines: an octet of eight lines followed by a sextet of six lines. The speaker begins the poem by asking herself, in the first line, in what ways she loves her lover. The rest of the poem is essentially an answer to this question. The speaker proceeds to “count” the ways she loves him by describing the extent of her feelings. She first illustrates her love as a kind of three-dimensional energy, taking up the full space of her soul. Love is portrayed in an abstract manner and given a spiritual intensity. The speaker then describes her love in a more mundane manner, equating her feelings to the practical need for the light of the sun. The poem continues to describe feelings of passion with religious overtones, as the speaker makes references to religious faith and concludes with the hope that God will let her continue to love her lover in the afterlife.