Love in PoemsRobert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" is based on a true story about the fifth Duke of Ferrera during the Renaissance era. He married 14-year-old Lucrezia and then left her for a period of two years. She died at the age of 17. In this poem, the Duke is now looking for a second wife. Robert Browning is one of the greatest poets of the Victorian era. He writes romantic poems and he expresses love in this poem as obsessive. The rhyme scheme of the poem is a, a, b, b. It's a dramatic monologue. This is the kind of poem where there is only one speaker. In this poem, it is the duke. At the very beginning of the poem, we are already given the idea that the Duke is a proud man, especially of his art collections. “This is my last duchess painted on the wall”, this quote tells us that he includes his last wife in his collection. The “ma” emphasizes that the duke has his last duchess. In doing so, Robert Browning emphasizes that the Duke wants power, particularly over his latest wife. His painting is now behind the wall and the Duke shows it to a few chosen strangers, "since no one but me puts up the curtain that I drew for you." The painting was created by FraPandolf. The Duke is jealous that the Duchess can blush when receiving compliments from anyone. “Sir, it wasn’t just the presence of her husband… in the Duchess’s cheek.” In this quote, the Duke never treated his wife as an equal. But he considered himself higher than her and he would not lower himself to tell the Duchess what she was doing that bothered him. He thinks the Duchess has no pride because she treats everyone equally, "as if she were putting my gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name on par with anyone else's." . He wants the Duchess to be in the middle of the paper......and he wants the mistress to understand that it will never be a good idea if she dies a virgin. He now desperately wants to get her into bed. If she dies a virgin, the man's "lust" will turn to ashes. The last part of the poem uses more passionate language and basically gives the mistress a more attractive idea if the man is making love to the mistress. The entire third part describes how the man feels about making love to his mistress. Andrew uses similes "like morning dew" to compare his mistress's "youthful hue" and "like amorous birds of prey" to describe how they should perform the act of lovemaking. Basically this part has more persuasion than the other. parts. It is similar to “The Beggar Woman” because it represents physical love. However, we will never know if the woman agrees with the man. We still have to decide for ourselves.