<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister </Td> </Tr> <P> "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" is a soliloquy written by Robert Browning, first published in his collection Dramatic Lyrics (1842). It is written in the voice of an unnamed Spanish monk . The poem consists of nine eight - line stanzas and is written in trochaic tetrameter . The plot of the poem centers around the speaker's hatred for "Brother Lawrence", a fellow monk in the cloister . </P> <P> The speaker notes the trivial ways in which Brother Lawrence fails in his Christianity, and then plots to murder, or damn the soul of, Brother Lawrence . However, the poem ends before the speaker can finish, when he is interrupted by the bells proclaiming it is time for vespers . </P>

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