Premise: Robert Browning ( 7 May 1812 -- 12 December 1889 ) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets . Browning 's admirers have tended to temper their praise with reservations about the length and difficulty of his most ambitious poems , particularly The Ring and the Book . Sordello is a narrative poem by the English poet Robert Browning . The Ring and the Book is a long dramatic narrative poem , and , more specifically , a verse novel , of 21,000 lines , written by Robert Browning .
Hypothesis: Robert Browning wrote poetry written only in the form of a speech of a chorus.
Label: CONTRADICTION