My Last Duchess-Robert Browning

The poem "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning is a poem written about a Duke of the 16th the century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem an is explaining to a visitor about a portrait of a ex-wife. He tells how she was a flirt and had very disgraceful behavior. He claims she flirted with everyone and did not appreciate his "gift of a nine-hundred-years- old name." As his monologue continues, the reader realizes with ever-more chilling certainty that the Duke in fact caused the Duchess's early demise, when her behavior escalated, "he gave commands, then all smiles stopped together." He is saying that he had her killed because she was flirting with everyone else, but the Duke himself. The man that is visiting is going to help him remarry to another young girl just like his first wife. The poem concludes with him walking away from the portrait pointing out other notable artworks in his collection.
"My Last Duchess" comprises rhyming pentameter......

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Title: My Last Duchess- Robert Browning
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