A prose writer may possess it with the same fulness as a poet.

Carlyle had it as remarkably as Browning, or nearly as remarkably.

He also had wit--a heavier wit than Browning's, less lambent, less piercing, but as forcible.
One thing more may be said.

The poem is far too long, and the subject does not bear its length.

The long poems of the world (I do not speak of those by inferior poets) have a great subject, are concerned with manifold fates of men, and are naturally full of various events and varied scenery.