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The laboratory by Robert Browning

About Robert Browning

  • Robert Browning was an English poet. Born- 1812, Died- 1889
  • He got married on 1845 with Elizabeth Barret, but was left as a widower after 1861.
  • He was one of the main Victorian poets
  • His first published books started in 1933, at that time King George V was the ruler
  • A famous saying is So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. = He was broke after Elizabeth died.

Literary devices

This poem is a Stanza (4 lines in each paragraph) and there are twelve-four line stanzas in this poem. The rhyme scheme is regular and it has a rhyming pattern of AABB:

Literary devices:

Metaphors:

“gold oozing” : the narrator description of the gum from a tree. The narrator is commenting on the ingredients of the poison trying to explain it is valuable and pretty

“devils-smithy”: referring to the laboratory. It is the first sign that something creepy is going on.

Personification:

“brave tree”

“wild crowd” : describe the ingredients.

Understanding of the

poem

The subtitle to Robert Browning's poem ''The Laboratory'', ''Ancient Regime'', tells us that it is set in France before the revolution, when the old regime of the monarchy was still in place. The poem is a dramatic monologue. The narrator appears to be a woman, which is not obvious in the opening stanza, but becomes so as the poem advances.

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