Dramatic Monologue Robert Browning Alfred Tennyson Dante Rossetti and other Victorians

Dramatic Monologue  A poem in which a single speaker who is not the poet utters the entire poem at a critical moment. The speaker has a listener within the poem, but we too are his/her listener, and we learn about the speaker's character from what the speaker says. In fact, the speaker may reveal unintentionally certain aspects of his/her character. Robert Browning perfected this form.  (source: Abrams glossary)

From  Glenn Everett proposes that Browninesque dramatic monologue has three requirements:three requirements 1. The reader takes the part of the silent listener.silent listener 2. The speaker uses a case-making, argumentative tone. 3. We complete the dramatic scene fromWe complete the dramatic scene within, by means of inference and imagination.