Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Ii. - Xix - Abuse Of Monastic Power Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACBADEDFGE| And what is Penance with her knotted thong | A |
| Mortification with the shirt of hair | B |
| Wan cheek and knees indurated with prayer | B |
| Vigils and fastings rigorous as long | A |
| If cloistered Avarice scruple not to wrong | A |
| The pious humble useful Secular | C |
| And rob the people of his daily care | B |
| Scorning that world whose blindness makes her strong | A |
| Inversion strange that unto One who lives | D |
| For self and struggles with himself alone | E |
| The amplest share of heavenly favour gives | D |
| That to a Monk allots both in the esteem | F |
| Of God and man place higher than to him | G |
| Who on the good of others builds his own | E |
William Wordsworth
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