My Last Duchess

My Last Duchess
by Robert Browning
Original titleItaly
First published inDramatic Lyrics
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara
GenreHistorical
FormDramatic monologue
MeterHeroic couplets
Publication date1842
Lines56

"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. The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter (heroic couplet).

In the first edition of Dramatic Lyrics, the poem was merely titled "Italy".

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