Week 3: The Dramatic Monologue and the Modern Lyric Tradition. Q4: What is a Dramatic Monologue? Can it be defined? With reference to Browning, Eliot and Carol Ann Duffy:

The dramatic monologue is extremely hard to define, as it is multifaceted, and monologues vary widely in regards in content and situation. The dramatic part of the monologue form can be put down to the structure of the poetry itself, which is very often iambic, and where punctuation follows the pattern of everyday speech. Dramatic monologues do not usually rhyme, or conform to a strict pattern, as they are intended to reveal and honest and unedited version of the character which they portray.
We can attribute several other characteristics common to the dramatic monologue form. What become…