Thanks for these further thoughts, Tony and Gregory, and apologies for my having distractedly neglected this thread in favor of working on the poem. Now that I'm back-burnering that, I'll be getting busy absorbing more of the very good suggestions you've all given me.
I agree I've never thought of Prufrock as the same sort of monologue as Browning's "Duchess," though it does open with what sounds like half a dialogue.
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