Structure

• Dramatic monologue

  • Presents duke as powerful
  • He is the only one we hear
  • Listener becomes silent
• Iambic Pentameter

  • 10 syllables per line
  • Every other syllable being stressed
  • Shows duke is in control
• Rhyming couplets

  • Every 2 lines rhymes
  • Shows he is in control
• Personal Pronoun ‘my’

  • Duke is self obsessed
  • Sees object as an object which he owns
  • Superiority
• Enjambment in the ’Notice Neptune’

  • Not in full control
  • Uncontrollable anger
• Poem is one long stanza

  • Lack of power and control