The Patriot by Robert Browning
A speaker recalls the flowers, bells, and cheering crowds that welcomed him a year earlier. Now he walks through rain with his wrists bound, while people throw stones and spectators gather by the scaffold. He takes comfort in believing that God will repay him for what the world has withheld.
By Robert Browning · Genre: Dramatic Monologue, Narrative Poetry · 369 words
First lines
An Old Story
It was roses, roses, all the way, / With myrtle mixed in my path like mad: / The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway, / The church-spires flamed, such flags they had, / A year ago on this very day.
Genres
- Dramatic Monologue — A single speaker recounts his former public triumph and present humiliation, revealing his reasoning as he approaches the scaffold.
- Narrative Poetry — Six rhymed stanzas trace the reversal from a celebratory welcome to a bound procession one year later.
Tags
public acclaim · public humiliation · execution · divine recompense · dramatic monologue
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Browning
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Dramatic Monologue, Narrative Poetry
- Length: 369 words
- Structure: 1 section, 7 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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