" The title figure is described as possessing a "half-faint flush that dies along her throat" and "a spot of joy," though her "heart too soon made glad" caused the speaker to "give commands," upon which "all smiles stopped together."
The speaker laments that he has not skill in speech, and he wonders how he "could have made [his] will quite clear" while referencing someone who had "exceed[ed] the mark." The title figure is described as possessing a "half-faint flush that dies along her throat" and "a spot of joy," though her "heart too soon made glad" caused the speaker to "give commands," upon which "all smiles stopped together." This monologue ends with the speaker directing attention to Claus of Innsbruck's bronze statue of Neptune, away from Fra Pandolf's painting of the title woman. FTP, identify this poem about the murdered wife of the Duke of Ferrara, written by Robert Browning.
The speaker laments that he has not skill in speech, and he wonders how he "could have made [his] will quite clear" while referencing someone who had "exceed[ed] the mark.
"My Last Duchess"