Porphyria's Lover - Irony

The tone of this piece is very straightforward and story-like. It almost seems like it's a story out of a love novel. From the beginning it seems like the poem is going to one of great love, the way it starts out by describing a woman coming in from the rain and describing the way she loved him and worshiped him. All of a sudden the reader is surprised to read that he strangles her with her hair. It is ironic that a story that starts out explaining love ends in murder.