The Bad Monk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHI JJK L M| On the great walls of ancient cloisters were nailed | A |
| Murals displaying Truth the saint | B |
| Whose effect reheating the pious entrails | C |
| Brought to an austere chill a warming paint | B |
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| In the times when Christ was seeded around | D |
| More than one illustrious monk today unknown | E |
| Took for a studio the funeral grounds | F |
| And glorified Death as the one way shown | E |
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| mdash My soul is a tomb an empty confine | G |
| Since eternity I scour and I reside | H |
| Nothing hangs on the walls of this hideous sty | I |
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| O lazy monk When will I see | J |
| The living spectacle of my misery | J |
| The work of my hands and the love of my eyes | K |
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| Translated by William A Sigler | L |
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| Submitted by Ryan McGuire | M |
Charles Baudelaire
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