My Last Duchess/AO2/Robert Browning/How the story is told.

Along with many other Robert Browning poems, this one is written in the form of a dramatic monologue.

• This makes the poem more personal and more detailed than is if it was from the view of a second party.
• In this particular poem, the narrative appears more colloquial, involving more rhetorical questions, as if he is personally addressing the reader head on.
• The use of punctuation (such as brackets for when the narrator is insinuating something) !and exclamtion makes to mark dtrastic changes in tone and emotion! helps the reader understand the tone and

As well as Porphyria's Lover, this dramatic monologue is written in one continuous stanza, perhaps this suggests that the narrator is desperatly trying to explain something to the reader, and perhaps he is on edge, a bit tense maybe, so he is rushing (plus the use of punctuation shows his ever changing punctuation).

The rhyme scheme is AABB...............(I will amend this blog post by Wednesday)