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My Last Duchess

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  • what is the poem about
    The Duke showing off his private gallery, He gets carried away talking about the duchess rather than art
  • whos the poem inspired by
    Duke of Ferrara
  • which line is there a rhetorical question
    line 47
  • whats the context of this poem
    Duke Ferrara's wife went suspiciously missing, poem written 300 years later but is still a mistery
  • when was this peom written
    1842
  • what alnguage device is used ' looking as if she were alive'
    simile
  • what is the form of this poem
    dramatic monolougue
  • what language device is used used in the key quote, 'dies along her throat'
    metaphor
  • what line is the 2nd key quote on
    45-46
  • what was the rhyming scheme
    iambic pentameter and rhyming couplets