Porphyria's Lover

• the rain set in..

  early to night
• it tore the elm-tops..

  down for spite
• when .... in porphyria straight

  glided
• she shut the cold out..


  and the storm
• blaze up, and the cottage..

  warm
• let the .... hair fall

  damp
• she put my arm...

  about my waist
• her ....... shoulder bare


  smooth white
• her .... hair displaced


  yellow
• from pride and..


  vanier ties dissever
• porphyria ...... me


  worshipped
• she was mine...


  mine, fair
• three times around

  her little throat
• as a shut bud that


  holds a bee
• without a

  stain
• blushed bright beneath my

  burning kiss
• and yet god has not...

  said a word!
• Who published the poem

  Robert Browning
• When was the poem published

  1836
• Whats the rhyme scheme of the poem

  ABABB
• Whats the structure of the poem

  dramatic monologue