Question

Select the correct answer. Which poetic technique does Robert Browning use in this excerpt from “My Last Duchess”? "Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps Frà Pandolf chanced to say "Her mantle laps Over my lady's wrist too much," or "Paint Must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat:" such stuff Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough For calling up that spot of joy. She had A heart—how shall I say?—too soon made glad,"

a.enjambment
b.blank verse
c.open form
d.end-stopped lines

Answer 1

A. Enjambment
There are no harsh endings of thought at the end of one line

Answer 2

a.enjambment

Step-by-step explanation:

In this excerpt, we can see the use of a poetic technique that consists of the misalignment of the metric and syntactic structure of a composition, in which the verses succeed each other without pauses at the end of each one. This technique is called Enjambement, which can also be conceptualized as a continuation of the meaning of a verse in the next verse, producing straight verses.