Browning's Men and Women consists of fifty-one poems, all of which are monologues spoken by different narrators, some identified and some not; the first fifty take in a very diverse range of historical, religious or European situations, with the fifty-first - "e;One Word More"e; - featuring Browning himself as narrator and dedicated to his wife.
Excerpt: "e;The sea swings mad in the raging grip - Of the seething, stinging gale, - It moans its hate with a yearning wrath - That bids fair cheeks go pale, - But fill the bowl to its brimming tip ,- Drink!
