my last duchess - robert browning

• as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody's gift.
• I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.
• Notice Neptune, though, taming a sea-horse,
• that's my last duchess painted on the wall,
• as if she were alive // as if alive (repetition highlights her death/memory)
• the curtain i have drawn for you,