My Last Duchess
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- Created on: 24-05-18 10:13
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- My Last Duchess
- Form
- Iambic pentameter
- Enjambment
- Dramatic monologue
- No comment from poet
- Structure
- Seemingly innocent tour turns into warning or justification of actions
- Context
- Duke of Ferrara married 14-year-old of lesser rank
- Suspected to have killed her
- Quotes
- "None puts by/The curtain I have drawn for you, but I"
- "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall/Looking as if she were alive. I call/That piece a wonder, now"
- "Sir, twas not/Her husband's presence only, called that spot/Of joy into the Duchess' cheek"
- "She had/A heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad,/too easily impressed"
- "She thanked men - good! but thanked/Somehow - I know not how - as if she ranked/My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name/With anybody's gift"
- "Just this/Or that in you disgusts me"
- "I choose/Never to stoop"
- "This grew; I gave commands;/Then all smiles stopped together"
- "There she stands/As if alive. Will't please you rise? We'll meet/The company below, then"
- "Notice Neptune, though,/Taming a seahorse, thought a rarity,/Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!"
- Form
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