Poetry and Structure- The Dramatic Monologue: Review : A dramatic monologue is poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silen but another imagined character. By speaking in the voice of a fictional narrator, the poet author communicates through an assumed voice and identity. Instructions : Read and annotate the following dramatic monologue "My Last Duchess' close reading and multiple choice questions. 'My Last Duchess" (1842) by Robert Browning Form: Draw vertical lines at the syllable count per line. FERRARA Why does the That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, beginning of the po and explain how it c Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now ; Fra Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read Since this poen presented through Strangers like you that pictured countenance, examples of direct The depth and passion of its earnest glance, speaker and what But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, How such a glance came there; so, not the first Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 'twas not Her husband's presence only, called that spot Of joy into the Duchess' cheek; perhaps Fra Pandolf chanced to say, "Her mantle laps Rhyme and Rhythm: Over my lady's wrist too much," or "Paint Label the rhym What does the Must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat." Such stuff