When we two parted - Key quotes
'To sever for years' - Verb sever shows the break was brutal - torn apart - they will never get back together
'In silence and tears' - Repeated - cyclical structure - Relationship was a secret
'A knell in mine ear' - Funeral bell symbolising death of the relationship - hearing her name is painful for him
'Share in its shame' - sibilance- he attempt to quite the rumours he shared in this scandal - guilt?
