The Wood-cutter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DAEA BFGF HIJI KLML NOPOWe came behind him by the wall | A |
My brethren drew their brands | B |
And they had strength to strike him down | C |
And I to bind his hands | B |
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Only once to a lantern gleam | D |
He turned his face from the wall | A |
And it was as the accusing angel's face | E |
On the day when the stars shall fall | A |
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I grasped the axe with shaking hands | B |
I stared at the grass I trod | F |
For I feared to see the whole bare heavens | G |
Filled with the face of God | F |
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I struck the serpentine slow blood | H |
In four arms soaked the moss | I |
Before me by the living Christ | J |
The blood ran in a cross | I |
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Therefore I toil in forests here | K |
And pile the wood in stacks | L |
And take no fee from the shivering folk | M |
Till I have cleansed the axe | L |
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But for a curse God cleared my sight | N |
And where each tree doth grow | O |
I see a life with awful eyes | P |
And I must lay it low | O |
G. K. Chesterton
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