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<br>The poem has a very melancholy tone throughout, expressing the feelings of Browning's Del Sarto', and to an extent Browning himself. It deals with the artists demise, or recline, that he thinks is slowly starting to destroy his life, and the freedom he once had as an artist. He makes references to the autumn in everything' that he now sees, and the sin of him being tempted' by Francis' coin', which he took'. It is clear from the beginning of the poem that Del Sarto' that he has to live with his resolve, and although he tries to outline his plight, he doesn't change it, as he says to Lucrezia do not let us quarrel any more'. He is succumbing to what he has to now do. He has to work now for the money he will gain, which destroys the ethos of art. Hi reference to