In "My Last Duchess," the main poetic devices
are:
Verbal Irony: "She had A
heart--how shall I say?--too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed;" (How can being a
happy, charitable person be
bad?)
Symbolism: "my last Duchess
painted" (The Duke objectifies, reifies women as property, possessions); "smiles"; "hands";
"name" (The poem pits male jealousy and reputation "name" against suspected female
promiscuity)
Imagery: body imagery
("hands"); auditory ("speech"); gender
("breast")
Metaphor: " My favor at her
breast, The dropping of the daylight in the West,"
Sound devices
(Prosody) are:
Rhyme scheme: AABB
("call" / "wall")
Euphony: "faint Half
flush"
Cacaphony: ""Which claus of
Innsbruck cast in bronze"
Alliteration:
"Notice Neptune"
Sibiliance: "she
stands"; "such stuff"
Assonance: "E'en
then"; "We'll meet"
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