Dramatic Monologue by Byron Glennis

Author:Byron, Glennis [Glennis Byron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781134695171
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

It would be difficult to forget that what is being presented here is a poem. The imagistic, rather than the naturalistic, qualities of language are emphasised. Musical effects are created through repetition and balance, through the long vowel sounds and the frequent use of alliteration. There is a preponderance of end-stopped lines which offset the wrenching awkwardness created by the sudden enjambement and inverted syntax of ‘Me only cruel Immortality / Consumes’ as the mood of weariness is replaced by a plaintive expression of pain.

The opening of Browning’s monologue creates a quite different effect. The painter-monk Fra Lippo has been spotted by the watch, who are supposed to arrest monks found out of the cloister at night:

I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave!

You need not clap your torches to my face.

Zooks, what’s to blame? you think you see a monk!

What, it’s past midnight, and you go the rounds,

And here you catch me at an alley’s end

Where sportive ladies leave their doors ajar?

The Carmine’s my cloister: hunt it up.

(1–7)

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