<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> `` 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>
who is the religious man named in soliloquy of the spanish cloister
who is the religious man named in soliloquy of the spanish cloister
unnamed Spanish monk
unnamed Spanish monk