The Grey Monk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDD EEAA FFGH IIJJ KKLL MENO PPEM AAA| 'I die I die ' the Mother said | A |
| 'My children die for lack of bread | A |
| What more has the merciless Tyrant said ' | B |
| The Monk sat down on the stony bed | A |
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| The blood red ran from the Grey Monk's side | C |
| His hands and feet were wounded wide | C |
| His body bent his arms and knees | D |
| Like to the roots of ancient trees | D |
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| His eye was dry no tear could flow | E |
| A hollow groan first spoke his woe | E |
| He trembled and shudder'd upon the bed | A |
| At length with a feeble cry he said | A |
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| 'When God commanded this hand to write | F |
| In the studious hours of deep midnight | F |
| He told me the writing I wrote should prove | G |
| The bane of all that on Earth I lov'd | H |
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| My Brother starv'd between two walls | I |
| His Children's cry my soul appalls | I |
| I mock'd at the rack and griding chain | J |
| My bent body mocks their torturing pain | J |
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| Thy father drew his sword in the North | K |
| With his thousands strong he marched forth | K |
| Thy Brother has arm'd himself in steel | L |
| To avenge the wrongs thy Children feel | L |
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| But vain the Sword and vain the Bow | M |
| They never can work War's overthrow | E |
| The Hermit's prayer and the Widow's tear | N |
| Alone can free the World from fear | O |
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| For a Tear is an intellectual thing | P |
| And a Sigh is the sword of an Angel King | P |
| And the bitter groan of the Martyr's woe | E |
| Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow | M |
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| The hand of Vengeance found the bed | A |
| To which the Purple Tyrant fled | A |
| The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head | A |
| And became a Tyrant in his stead ' | - |
William Blake
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