Porhyria's Lover is a monologue, which gives the reader a dramatic insight into the mind of an abnormally possessive lover. Love poems often express the wish that time would stand still so that a particularly intense moment of love will last forever. This is the same with the lover in the poem. He feels the same way and feels he has to immortalise the moment in a different way to anyone else. In the poem …showed first 75 words of 472 total…

…showed last 75 words of 472 total…lines in the poem. "And all night long we have not stirred, And yet God has not said a word!" He thinks that he is not going to be punished by God Porhyria's Lover is a dramatic monologue that follows an ABABBA scheme. If we take the first lines to demonstrate this we can see that the ending words are the rhyming parts. " night; awake; spite; lake; break." This pattern follows throughout the whole poem.