The characteristic of the devotions is lengthiness.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
No other plan suggested itself, at the time, for bringing the whole series of these poems at once under the reader's eye: since a description which throughout followed the historical order would have involved both lengthiness and repetition; while, as I have tried to show, there exists no scheme of natural classification into which the whole series could have been forced.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
His immense and heart-breaking lengthiness is not mere verbosity: it comes partly from the artist's natural delight in a true and newly found method, partly from a still more respectably artistic desire not to do the work negligently.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury