The Axeman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFEEGGEEAAEE HHEE IG IEEDDEE JJEEGGEEKKEE LLEEGGMMENOE| High on the hills where the tall trees grow | A |
| There lives an axeman that know | A |
| From his little hut by a ferny creek | B |
| Day after day week after week | B |
| He goes each morn with his shining axe | C |
| Trudging along by the forest tracks | C |
| And he chops and he chops till the daylight goes | D |
| High on the hills where the blue gum grows | D |
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| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
| There's a log to move and a branch to lop | E |
| Now to the felling His sharp axe bites | F |
| Into a tree on the forest heights | F |
| And scarce for a breath does the axeman stop | E |
| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
| Bell birds watch him and in the fern | G |
| Wallabies listen awhile and turn | G |
| Back through the bracken and off they hop | E |
| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
| Patient and tireless blow on blow | A |
| The axeman swings as the minutes go | A |
| While the echoes ring from the mountain top | E |
| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
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| Round about him the rabbits play | H |
| Skipping and scampering all the day | H |
| And the sweet young grass by the logs they crop | E |
| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
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| Crimson parrots above him climb | I |
| The Axeman | G |
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| Chattering chattering all the time | I |
| As down from the branches the twigs they drop | E |
| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
| Steadily surely on he goes | D |
| Shaking the tree with his mighty blows | D |
| There's never a pause and there's never a stop | E |
| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
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| Out from the bush beyond is heard | J |
| The swaggering song of the butcher bird | J |
| Seeking a joint for his butcher's shop | E |
| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
| Deeper and deeper the cut creeps in | G |
| While the parrots shriek with a deafening din | G |
| And the chips fly out with a flip and a flop | E |
| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
| Yellow robins come flocking round | K |
| Watching the chips as they fall to ground | K |
| Darting to catch the g ubs that drop | E |
| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
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| The blows come quicker The axe biade hums | L |
| Stand well back there before she comes | L |
| Hark How the splinters crack and pop | E |
| Chip Chop Chip Chop | E |
| Listen Listen She's creaking now | G |
| Look high up at that trembling bough | G |
| Another second and down she'll smash | M |
| Shaking the earth with a mighty crash | M |
| Look at her Look at her Chip Chop | E |
| Chip Chip | N |
| Wee E E E E E | O |
| FLOP | E |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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