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What poetic form is “My Last Duchess” written in?

AFree verse

BSonnet

CBlank verse

DRhyming heroic couplets

Answer:

D. Rhyming heroic couplets

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The poem is written in rhyming heroic couplets (AABBCC...), and each line is in iambic pentameter, which is characteristic of many of Browning’s dramatic monologues.


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