my last duchess

• "as if she ranked / my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name" - irony
• "thats my last duchess painted on the wall" - possessive pronoun
• "notice neptune, though, taming a sea horse" - boastful language
• "the curtain i have drawn for you" - curtain symbol/ shows he controls her even in her death
• "i gave commands then all smiles stopped together" - caesura/ short phrases/ implies he had her killed
• "will't please you sit and look at her" - rhetorical question/ command phrased as a question