Robert Browning’s Rondures BraveBrownings Fra Lippo Lippi says that we may pass things a hundred times and never see them. One thing that Brownings readers have passed without seeing, or at least without remarking upon, is the circular conclusion in so many of his poems. Some sixty poems (almost a third of them) have such conclusions. These sixty span his entire career and include both well known and neglected poems. The circular conclusion is so called because it returns to the