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Porphyria's Lover - Robert Browning
(1812-1889) Robert Browning is a British writer, known for poems like "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess." "Porphyria's Lover" is one of a pair of monologues originally published under the title "Madhouse Cells."
"Prophyria's Lover" [1842]
"This dramatic monologue is a good example of Browning's use of the form. It has a rhyme pattern--a b a b b--but the informal phrasing does not emphasize the rhyme, so that we seem to be hearing the spontaneous thoughts of the speaker."
Browning's Porphyria's Lover.
"In Robert Browning's early dramatic monologue "Porphyria's Lover," first published as "Porphyria" in the Monthly Repository for January 1836, the speaker describes how he murders the woman he loves.[1]"