This is very unlike his usual way; but it is very much the way in which tales of this kind are unconsciously up-built.
Men have tried to find in the poem an allegory of human life; but Browning had no allegorising intention.

However, as every story which was ever written has at its root the main elements of human nature, it is always possible to make an allegory out of any one of them.

If we like to amuse ourselves in that fashion, we may do so; but we are too bold and bad if we impute allegory to Browning.

_Childe Roland_ is nothing more than a gallop over the moorlands of imagination; and the skies of the soul, when it was made, were dark and threatening storm.
But one thing is plain in it: it is an outcome of that passion for the mystical world, for adventure, for the unknown, which lies at the root of the romantic tree.
The _Flight of the Duchess_ is full of the passion of escape from the conventional; and no where is Browning more original or more the poet.
Its manner is exactly right, exactly fitted to the character and condition of the narrator, who is the Duke's huntsman.

Its metrical movement is excellent, and the changes of that movement are in harmony with the things and feelings described.