- Mastery of the dramatic monologue

- Used odd rhymes

- Style was difficult and obscure

- Browning’s two main themes were love and art.

- Dramatic personas- (dramatic mask) allowed poems to be read as little plays which allowed Browning to create a conflict between sympathy and judgment within the audience. The reader often judges the dramatic speaker to be evil but never the less sympathizes with his predicament. It also allowed Browning to conceal his real feelings.

(Simmons, Toups, and Tramontana)