The Mountain Splitter Poem Rhyme Scheme

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He works in the glen where the waratah grows	A
And the gums and the ashes are tall	B
Neath cliffs that re echo the sound of his blows	A
When the wedges leap in from the mawl	B
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He comes of a hardy old immigrant race	C
And he feels not the rain nor the drouth	D
His sinews are tougher than wire and his face	C
Has been tanned by the sun of the south	D
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Now doomed to be shorn of its glory at last	E
Is the stately old tree he attacks	F
Its moments of life he is numbering fast	E
With the keen steady strokes of his axe	F
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Loud cracks at the butt and the strong wood is burst	G
And the splitter steps backward and turns	H
His eyes to the boughs that move slowly at first	G
Ere they rush to their grave in the ferns	H
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He strips off the bark with slight effort of strength	D
And stretches it out on the weeds	I
And marks off the trunk with a measure the length	D
Of the rails or the palings he needs	I
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The teeth of his crosscut so truly are set	J
That it swings from his elbow at ease	K
And the song of the saw I am hearing it yet	J
Has the music of wind in the trees	K
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Strong blows on the wedge and a rip and a tear	L
And the log opens up to the butt	M
And spreading around through the pure mountain air	L
Is the scent of the wood newly cut	M
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A lover of comfort and cronies is he	N
And when the day s work is behind	O
A fire and a yarn and a billy of tea	N
At the hut of the splitter you ll find	O
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His custom is sought in the town by the range	P
For well to the future he looks	Q
His cheques in an instant the storekeepers change	P
And his name is the best on the books	Q

Henry Lawson

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