love and relationship poems

• When We Two Parted

  Rhyme pattern: ABAB

  Key quotations: "Silence in tears" (sibilance), "Share in its shame" (sibilance)
• Love's Philosophy


  Rhyme scheme: ABABCDCD

  Key quotations: "Fountains rivers and oceans" (natural language), "Law divine"
• Porphyria's Lover


  Rhyme scheme: ABABB

  Key quotations: "Sullen wind trying to vex the lake" (pathetic fallacy), "Three times her little throat around" (alliteration)
• Sonnet 29


  Form: Sonnet

  Key quotations: "Thoughts ellipses do twine", "But thee", "Rather renew thy presence" (alliteration)
• Neutral Tones


  Form: Quatrain

  Key quotations: "Winter day" (pathetic fallacy), "Alive enough to have the strength to die" (oxymoron)
• The Farmer's Bride


  Form: Free verse

  Key quotations: "Frightened fate" (alliteration), "Her eyes her hair"
• Walking Away


  Rhyme scheme: ABACA

  Key quotations: "Wrenched from orbit", "Half fledged thing"
• Letters from Yorkshire


  Form: Free verse

  Key quotations: "Not all singing", "Feeding words on a blank screen", "Air and light"
• Eden Rock


  Form: 5 stanzas, last line separate

  Key quotations: "Genuine Irish tweed", "Crossing is not as hard as you might think"
• Follower


  Rhyme scheme: ABAB

  Key quotations: "Glowed like a forked cell", "Tripping falling yapping"
• Mother, any distance


  Form: Free verse

  Key quotations: "On reading years between us", "End the sky to fall or fly"
• Before You Are Mine

  Form: 4 stanzas of 5 lines

  Key quotations: "Marilyn", "Clara scent", "The mother is stamping stars"
• Winter Swans


  Form: Tercets, final stanza a couplet

  Key quotations: "Clouds have given their all", "Like a pair of wings settling"
• Sing Song


  Form: Free verse

  Key quotations: "One of my dad shops" (phonetic), "The worst Indian shop on the whole Indian Road", "Tiny eyes of a gun"
• Climbing My Grandfather


  Form: 1 long stanza

  Key quotations: "Do it free without a rope or net", "Glassy ridge of a scar", "Just good heart"