The Evil Monk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFG HIG| The ancient cloisters on their lofty walls | A |
| Had holy Truth in painted frescoes shown | B |
| And seeing these the pious in those halls | A |
| Felt their cold lone austereness less alone | B |
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| At that time when Christ's seed flowered all around | C |
| More than one monk forgotten in his hour | D |
| Taking for studio the burial ground | C |
| Glorified Death with simple faith and power | D |
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| And my soul is a sepulchre where I | E |
| Ill cenobite have spent eternity | F |
| On the vile cloister walls no pictures rise | G |
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| O when may I cast off this weariness | H |
| And make the pageant of my old distress | I |
| For these hands labour pleasure for these eyes | G |
Charles Baudelaire
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