Mike Sobieraj

English 203

Roger Gilbert





The Lover and the Duke





The creation of a plausible character within literature is one of the most difficult challenges to a writer, and development to a level at which the reader identifies with them can take a long time. However, through the masterful use of poetic devices and language Browning is able to create two living and breathing characters in sixty or less lines. When one examines these works one has to that they are quite the achievements for they not only display the persona's of two distinct men but also when compared show large differences while dealing with essentially the same subject.

A brief examination of the structural aspects of "Porphyria's Lover" is needed before further analysis is done. One can break the poem up into twelve stanzas with an ababb stanzaic rhyme structure, though it is most often printed as a block poem. This would make it an alternately rhymed quatrain with a fifth line attached to......

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Title: Browning, Robert: My Last Duchess And Porphyria's Lover
Approximate Word Count: 1774
Approximate Pages: 8 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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