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My Last Duchess
1842 poem by Robert Browning / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics.[1] The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter (heroic couplet).
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In the first edition of Dramatic Lyrics, the poem was merely titled "Italy".