my last duchess

Question 1

my last duchess - rhyme

Answer 1

aa bb cc dd etc.

the rigid rhyme shows the control and power the speaker has

Question 2

my last duchess - thank

Answer 2

thanked
Somehow… as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift

Question 3

my last duchess - command

Answer 3

I gave commands;

Then all smiles stopped together

Question 4

my last duchess - alive

Answer 4

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive

Question 5

my last duchess - pleased easily

Answer 5

She had A heart—how shall I say? too soon made glad, Too easily impressed

the growing indication is her attention went where it shouldn’t have - shows manipulation of the truth POWER

‘frau’ painted it - monk - no relationship

Question 6

my last duchess - repetition of alive

Answer 6

There she stands / As if alive

shows she is dead and makes the reader question the narrator

the narrators power is hinted at with the insinuation he killed her

Question 7

my last duchess - move on

Answer 7

Though his fair daughter’s self …is my object