This is an analysis of My Last Duchess by Robert Browning.

FERRARA.
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbccddeeffffddffggccXXffaahhffiiaaddffdbffbbffXXccjjXe
  • Stanza lengths: 1,56,
  • Metre: 010 1111010101 1010100111 1101011101 1100011111 1111111011 1101011101 1011110100 0111000101 1011111111 0101111111 1111111011 1101111101 1101111111 0101010111 0100010101 11010010101 1011011111 1101010101 1111010111 1100111101 1101110111 0111111111 11000111100 1111011101 1111110101 0100011001 0101011001 1001010011 1101010111 11000100101 1111111011 1111111011 1100110011 0100011101 0101010111 0111110110 1101111110 1101011111 1101011011 01010011101 0101101101 10110110111 1001111111 10011011101 1011011101 1111010111 1001111111 0100011101 0111011000 0101011110 0111000101 1011011101 1100110111 0101110101 1001110100 1101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 57

Repeated words/phrases

they, she

Anaphora

the, or