The Monk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D E F G| I used to know a monk a hermit a saint He lived only for the sweetness of prayer and steeping himself in it he would stand so long on the cold floor of the church that his legs below the knees grew numb and senseless as blocks of wood He did not feel them he stood on and prayed | A |
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| I understood him and perhaps envied him but let him too understand me and not condemn me me for whom his joys are inaccessible | B |
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| He has attained to annihilating himself his hateful ego but I too it's not from egoism I pray not | C |
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| My ego may be is even more burdensome and more odious to me than his to him | D |
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| He has found wherein to forget himself but I too find the same though not so continuously | E |
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| He does not lie but neither do I lie | F |
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| November | G |
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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