Senate rules allow a senator to filibuster â to speak for an indefinite period of time on any subject whatsoever. Historically, this has been used to prevent action on the measure being debated. The filibuster is famous.
Dramatic monologue. Dramatic monologue, also known as a persona poem, is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character. M.H. Abrams notes the following three features of the dramatic monologue as it applies to poetry.
Metaphysical poems are lyric poems. They are brief but intense meditations, characterized by striking use of wit, irony and wordplay. Beneath the formal structure (of rhyme, metre and stanza) is the underlying (and often hardly less formal) structure of the poem's argument.