My last duchess Flashcards
What is the structure of the poem?
The rhyme is tight and a lot of syllables in a line
What does the tight rhyme and a lot of syllables in a line scheme suggest?
Reflects the tight control of the duke and how extremely controlling he is.
What does the Enjambment of the poem suggests?
Reflects that the duke doesn’t have complete control, he himself is quite uncontrollable and wild in his anger that he has to blirt out emotion
What does the long verse suggests?
Reflects how the duke doesn’t stop to reflect his own words he doesn’t care about the listener it makes the reader feel overwhelmed reflecting how he is overwhelmed
When the Duke tells the vistior of who painted the duchess who does he say did it?
‘Fro Pandolf’
What does the writer say to present the insecurity about his wife?
‘Her looks went everywhere’
