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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.
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.