The Monastery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFEFGFGF HIEIGGEJEJGFGF| Beyond the wall the passion flower is blooming | A |
| Strange hints of life along the winds are blown | B |
| Within the cowled and silent men are kneeling | A |
| Before an image on a cross of stone | B |
| And on their lifted faces wan as death | C |
| I read this simple message of their faith | D |
| The trail of flame is ashen | E |
| And pleasure's lees are gray | F |
| And gray the fruit of passion | E |
| Whose ripeness is decay | F |
| The stress of life is rancor | G |
| A madness born to slay | F |
| They only miss its canker | G |
| Who live with God and pray | F |
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| Beyond the wall lies Babylon the mighty | H |
| Faint echoes of her songs come drifting by | I |
| Within there is a hymn of consecration | E |
| A psalm that lifts the fervent soul on high | I |
| And yet sometimes where bows the hooded choir | G |
| There comes the old call of the World's Desire | G |
| The rose's dust is ashen | E |
| Be petals white or red | J |
| And vain the sighs of passion | E |
| When summer's light is fled | J |
| The garden's fruitful measure | G |
| Is crowned with bloom today | F |
| They only miss its treasure | G |
| Who turn their hearts away | F |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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