Question

What is the meaning of drop down dead in the poem the patriot?

Answer 1

It means that people have dropped him in the scaffolds foot for beheading him and he now died.

Answer 2

Robert Browning has portrayed before us an image of a patriot who is misunderstood in his year's deeds. He explains that people who have done good have died without any particular reason because of the misunderstandings. In triumphs people have been killed in this mortal world without their own mistakes....