My last duchess

Cards (11)

  • A heart- how shall I say?- too soon made glad, Too easily impressed
  • My gift of a nine hundred years old name
  • Will‘t please you sit and look at her?
  • We’ll meet the company below, then.
  • all smiles stopped together
  • use of possessive pronoun my
  • Spot of joy
  • (Which I have not)
  • Officious fool
  • My last duchess structure 

    One long stanza- shows how overwhelmed the duke is and the power of objects to create emotions and memories
  • Use of frequent enjambment to show breathlessness of the Duke and therefore lack of human power