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My Last Duchess

Robert Browning

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1842
Pages
Pages 2

Showing off his late wife's portrait to a marriage broker, a duke explains with perfect courtesy why her smiles displeased him, and lets slip that he had them stopped.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive.
My Last Duchess, Robert Browning

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