My Last Duchess

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Rhyme scheme
The author Robert Browning uses rhyming couplets all the way through the poem.
1 of 6
"as if she were alive"
This statement has a very sinister tone
2 of 6
"passion of its earnest glance"
The man refers to the woman using the pronoun "it" showing he sees her as a possession.
3 of 6
"and her looks went everywhere"
The woman was flirty and friendly with everyone she talked too and the man didn't like it.
4 of 6
"Who'd stoop to blame this sort of trifling?"
The rhetorical question shows the mans vanity.
5 of 6
"my object"
The man thinks the woman is his own property.
6 of 6

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Card 2

Front

This statement has a very sinister tone

Back

"as if she were alive"

Card 3

Front

The man refers to the woman using the pronoun "it" showing he sees her as a possession.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

The woman was flirty and friendly with everyone she talked too and the man didn't like it.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

The rhetorical question shows the mans vanity.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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