My last duchess- Robert browning

• (since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
• My gift of a 900 years old name
• Who’d stoop to blame this sort of trifling?… and I chose never to stoop
• That’s my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive.
• Noticed Neptune, though, taming a seahorse
• I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together
• written by - Robert Browning
• iambic pentameter

  • Reflects strict control over his women
  • Links to his strict controlling manner
• His POV only - no female voice, which mirrors society