After the narrator killed his lover, he "propped her head up as before,/Only, this time my shoulder bore", and then sits like that, in semblance of a happy couple, happy that she is his forever. He does this so that he can possess her completely.
The narrator is a man who is highly jealous and possessive, and bitter about his love's time being spent elsewhere. He doesn't answer her call when she arrives; so, he is pouting. He is upset that her heart is "Too weak, for all her heart’s endeavor/To set its struggling passion free/From pride, and vainer ties dissever,/And give herself to me forever". He wants her to reject all else and be with him, but she does not, is too weak. So, he takes matters (or, her hair) into his own hands and fixes it so that she can be.
Dramatic monologue is where a speaker tells a story, often in poem form. The only perspective we get is of the narrator's view of events-they are the only one speaking. The above quoted passage sounds like natural speech; it is so bitter in expression, different from the detached feel of the rest of the poem, so the emotion was so powerful that it probably came through in a more natural form, overhwhelming the calmness of the rest of it.
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