Need help for a poem

[awesomeboy6]

I need a analyse for these lines to understand clearly :

That church and pray'r, and holy Sunday
Were no excuse for sinful Monday;

Thinking in this uncommon mode,
So out of all the priestly road,
What man alive can e'er suppose,
Who marks the way Preferment goes,
That she should ever find her way
To this poor curate's house of clay?

Such was the priest, so strangely wise!
He could not bow — how should he rise?
Learned he was, and deeply read,
But what of that? — not duly bred.

[bounty]

awesomeboy, you'll find that folks here are willing to help out but want to guard against doing other people's work for them. so if I can encourage you in a few ways:

the first biggest one is--tell the reader what you think so far, how you understand it.

next, ask some very specific questions related to your understanding.

also, it might help if the reader saw the whole poem (and the author) instead of just part, so consider providing a link to it if its too long to post.

[qimissung]

Yeah, awesomeboy, in what context were you given this? What had you been studying? I tried googling it; it seems to be a poem by a lesser known English poet. Perhaps it has to do with living a life free of sin?