But it does not.

It reveals and confirms it.

The poem is a miracle of intellectual power.
This great length, elaborate detail, and the repetition so many times of the same story, would naturally suggest to an intending reader that the poem might be wearisome.

Browning, suspecting this, and in mercy to a public who does not care for a work of _longue haleine_, published it at first in four volumes, with a month's interval between each volume.

He thought that the story told afresh by characters widely different would strike new, if each book were read at intervals of ten days.