In lyric poetry, how is a dramatic monologue structurally distinguished from a standard interior soliloquy?

Correct answer: It requires a chorus to repeat the final word of every stanza in unison

A dramatic monologue, perfected by Victorian poets like Robert Browning, features a single speaker who is explicitly not the poet. The speaker addresses a silent but present listener (the auditor) within a dynamic, real-time situation, unintentionally revealing their own psychological flaws, biases, or moral character through their rhetoric. A soliloquy, by contrast, is a theatrical convention where a character speaks their thoughts aloud to themselves, with no internal auditor present.