Erasmus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCACB DEDDDD| When he protested not too solemnly | A |
| That for a world's achieving maintenance | B |
| The crust of overdone divinity | A |
| Lacked aliment they called it recreance | B |
| And when he chose through his own glass to scan | C |
| Sick Europe and reduced unyieldingly | A |
| The monk within the cassock to the man | C |
| Within the monk they called it heresy | B |
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| And when he made so perilously bold | D |
| As to be scattered forth in black and white | E |
| Good fathers looked askance at him and rolled | D |
| Their inward eyes in anguish and affright | D |
| There were some of them did shake at what was told | D |
| And they shook best who knew that he was right | D |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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