The Monk's Walk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHII HHCC JJKK IIII CCLL KKMM NOII PPBA| In this sombre garden close | A |
| What has come and passed who knows | B |
| What red passion what white pain | C |
| Haunted this dim walk in vain | C |
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| Underneath the ivied wall | D |
| Where the silent shadows fall | D |
| Lies the pathway chill and damp | E |
| Where the world quit dreamers tramp | E |
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| Just across where sunlight burns | F |
| Smiling at the mourning ferns | F |
| Stand the roses side by side | G |
| Nodding in their useless pride | G |
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| Ferns and roses who shall say | H |
| What you witness day by day | H |
| Covert smile or dropping eye | I |
| As the monks go pacing by | I |
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| Has the novice come to day | H |
| Here beneath the wall to pray | H |
| Has the young monk lately chidden | C |
| Sung his lyric sweet forbidden | C |
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| Tell me roses did you note | J |
| That pale father's throbbing throat | J |
| Did you hear him murmur Love | K |
| As he kissed a faded glove | K |
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| Mourning ferns pray tell me why | I |
| Shook you with that passing sigh | I |
| Is it that you chanced to spy | I |
| Something in the Abbot's eye | I |
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| Here no dream nor thought of sin | C |
| Where no worlding enters in | C |
| Here no longing no desire | L |
| Heat nor flame of earthly fire | L |
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| Branches waving green above | K |
| Whisper naught of life nor love | K |
| Softened winds that seem a breath | M |
| Perfumed bring no fear of death | M |
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| Is it living thus to live | N |
| Has life nothing more to give | O |
| Ah no more of smile or sigh | I |
| Life the world and love good bye | I |
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| Gray and passionless and dim | P |
| Echoing of the solemn hymn | P |
| Lies the walk 'twixt fern and rose | B |
| Here within the garden close | A |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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