Question

Read the lines from the poem “Porphyria’s Lover” and identify the rhyme scheme and meter. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm; Which done, she rose, and from her form

Answer 1

Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning

Meter: it is mostly iambic tetrameter because in most of the poem there are 4 iambs per line.

Rhyme: it is asymmetrical because each unit is not made up of the same rhymic unit. It has an unbalanced scheme that follows the pattern of ABABB.