The Wood-cutter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DAEA BFGF HIJI KLML NOPO| We 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 |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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