My last duchess- robert browning

• "looking as if she were alive" -teasingly ambiguous (he kk=nows something we dont)
• "painting of my last duchess" -even in death she is objectified -last implies she was not the last wife he'll ever have
• "will't please you sit and look at her" -impose social superitority -rhetorical question -implicit command
• RHYME: "countenance... glance" - unobtrusive rhyming couplets =intelligence/ language capacity
• "none puts by the curtain i have drawn for you but i" -controlling -tyrannical
• "if they durst" -sinister tone -intimidating
• "gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name" -values old world power more -aristocratic heritage - inherited arrogance -ostentatious
• "this grew; i gave commands; then all smiles stopped together" -sinister tricolon -demonstrate extent of power
• "notice Neptune... taming a seahorse" -image of subjugation - objectification -idolises himself
• themes: -power -control -gender -jealousy
• form and structure : -unobtrusive rhyming couplets show intelligence/ language capacity- broken syntax betrays emotions -circular structure (begin and end with art) -dramatic monologue (gradual revelation)
• language: - teasingly ambiguous -possessive -semantic field of art
• tone: -sinister -unsettling
• context: -browning popularised dramatic monologue -inspired by historical renaissance figures