...coyness, lady, were no crime (MARVELL, "To His Coy Mistress") with five, iambic pentameter: That's my last Duchess painted on the wall Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now . . . (BROWNING, "My Last Duchess") with six feet, an alexandrine: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in...

...of watchword, a manner (sometimes a grand one) of speaking. MY LAST DUCHESS Ferrara That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, 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...

...relation between freedom and law in the verse with which Browning represents his voice: That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands.68 Here at the opening there is a momentary...

...enclosing them in tight phrasing. Browning's "My Last Duchess" marks the difference: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive. I call / That piece a wonder" can only be recognized as coupletrhyme with ear industrious and attention meet. In the twentieth century...

...faith in the two poems. Pffc.- .••"•, i ' Robert Browning My Last Duchess Ferrara That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were...alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf 's hands Who do you think Fra Pandolf is? Worked busily a day, and there she stands, s Will't please...

...book, and our discussion of it there (page 105) will let you know how you did. FERRARA That's my last duchess painted on the wall, 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...

...Tide of Victory The General series, with David Drake: The Tyrant Prologue: Spring, 1633 That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolfs hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Ueni\ '.** ytwth 3t>%Tuf*ao ^dB. ^ en/ce...

...Browning's Duke starts his monologue with an insistent deictic pointing to the picture: That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolfs hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will' t please you sit and look at her? ("My...

...scholar. This page intentionally left blank. Introduction: A Feminine Language of the Eyes? That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, 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? (1-5)...

...opening lines of a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning captured Peggy's imagination: That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder . . . ("My Last Duchess") Here was mystery, subtlety, obsession, verbal description, and an intriguing...