"One Word More" by Robert Browning (poetry reading)

Browning does the best rants. This isn't the whole poem, I skipped to the to the last stanza, omitting lines 73 to 197. You can read the rest here:
http://www.bartleby.com/246/658.html

The poem with more notes here:
http://www.online-literature.com/robert-browning/men-and-women/10/

The reason it sounds different from more usual Shakespearian lines is that these are trochaic pentameters, rather than iambic pentameters. (Shakespeare did use this form too, but not often) They go hard/soft rather than soft/hard. Trochaic tetrameters are more common, four feet per line, like Longfellow's Haiwatha.

The paintings are by Raphael, whose proper name was Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483 -- 1520).

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[DragonflyGirl09]

Wow, that was a very satisfying reading!!

[bluecliff03]

Browning is effing great. It's simply amazing how someone can have the quintessence of music and the quintessence of rhetoric all in the same place.

[langstonify]

A great rant, as you say, and a terrific reading of it. Thanks.