Song Of The Broad-axe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAA FGHIC JKLMNOPQRSTUVVWXY ZA2CB2C2D2E2F2G2H2I2 J2D2K2L2M2N2O2M2P2AQ 2R2M2A2AM2S2TT2U2V2A 2AL2V2W2X2Y2M2L2Z2A3 P2YM2B3V2Y2M2C3D3D2S 2A2E3F3U2A2AAB2M2M2A B3G3H3D2I3L2M2V2AX2A 2AJ3W2K3L3M3X2A2N3A2 M2QO3R2R2M2M2QX2D2R2 D2P3M2D2R2A2R2R2V2R2 M2M2 X2Q3R2M2A2AR2R2| WEAPON shapely naked wan | A |
| Head from the mother's bowels drawn | B |
| Wooded flesh and metal bone limb only one and lip only one | C |
| Gray blue leaf by red heat grown helve produced from a little seed | D |
| sown | E |
| Resting the grass amid and upon | A |
| To be lean'd and to lean on | A |
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| Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes masculine trades | F |
| sights and sounds | G |
| Long varied train of an emblem dabs of music | H |
| Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great | I |
| organ | C |
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| Welcome are all earth's lands each for its kind | J |
| Welcome are lands of pine and oak | K |
| Welcome are lands of the lemon and fig | L |
| Welcome are lands of gold | M |
| Welcome are lands of wheat and maize welcome those of the grape | N |
| Welcome are lands of sugar and rice | O |
| Welcome the cotton lands welcome those of the white potato and sweet | P |
| potato | Q |
| Welcome are mountains flats sands forests prairies | R |
| Welcome the rich borders of rivers table lands openings | S |
| Welcome the measureless grazing lands welcome the teeming soil of | T |
| orchards flax honey hemp | U |
| Welcome just as much the other more hard faced lands | V |
| Lands rich as lands of gold or wheat and fruit lands | V |
| Lands of mines lands of the manly and rugged ores | W |
| Lands of coal copper lead tin zinc | X |
| LANDS OF IRON lands of the make of the axe | Y |
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| The log at the wood pile the axe supported by it | Z |
| The sylvan hut the vine over the doorway the space clear'd for a | A2 |
| garden | C |
| The irregular tapping of rain down on the leaves after the storm is | B2 |
| lull'd | C2 |
| The wailing and moaning at intervals the thought of the sea | D2 |
| The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends | E2 |
| and the cutting away of masts | F2 |
| The sentiment of the huge timbers of old fashion'd houses and | G2 |
| barns | H2 |
| The remember'd print or narrative the voyage at a venture of men | I2 |
| families goods | J2 |
| The disembarkation the founding of a new city | D2 |
| The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it the outset | K2 |
| anywhere | L2 |
| The settlements of the Arkansas Colorado Ottawa Willamette | M2 |
| The slow progress the scant fare the axe rifle saddle bags | N2 |
| The beauty of all adventurous and daring persons | O2 |
| The beauty of wood boys and wood men with their clear untrimm'd | M2 |
| faces | P2 |
| The beauty of independence departure actions that rely on | A |
| themselves | Q2 |
| The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies the boundless | R2 |
| impatience of restraint | M2 |
| The loose drift of character the inkling through random types the | A2 |
| solidification | A |
| The butcher in the slaughter house the hands aboard schooners and | M2 |
| sloops the raftsman the pioneer | S2 |
| Lumbermen in their winter camp day break in the woods stripes of | T |
| snow on the limbs of trees the occasional snapping | T2 |
| The glad clear sound of one's own voice the merry song the natural | U2 |
| life of the woods the strong day's work | V2 |
| The blazing fire at night the sweet taste of supper the talk the | A2 |
| bed of hemlock boughs and the bear skin | A |
| The house builder at work in cities or anywhere | L2 |
| The preparatory jointing squaring sawing mortising | V2 |
| The hoist up of beams the push of them in their places laying them | W2 |
| regular | X2 |
| Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises according as they | Y2 |
| were prepared | M2 |
| The blows of mallets and hammers the attitudes of the men their | L2 |
| curv'd limbs | Z2 |
| Bending standing astride the beams driving in pins holding on by | A3 |
| posts and braces | P2 |
| The hook'd arm over the plate the other arm wielding the axe | Y |
| The floor men forcing the planks close to be nail'd | M2 |
| Their postures bringing their weapons downward on the bearers | B3 |
| The echoes resounding through the vacant building | V2 |
| The huge store house carried up in the city well under way | Y2 |
| The six framing men two in the middle and two at each end | M2 |
| carefully bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross | C3 |
| beam | D3 |
| The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly | D2 |
| laying the long side wall two hundred feet from front to rear | S2 |
| The flexible rise and fall of backs the continual click of the | A2 |
| trowels striking the bricks | E3 |
| The bricks one after another each laid so workmanlike in its place | F3 |
| and set with a knock of the trowel handle | U2 |
| The piles of materials the mortar on the mortar boards and the | A2 |
| steady replenishing by the hod men | A |
| Spar makers in the spar yard the swarming row of well grown | A |
| apprentices | B2 |
| The swing of their axes on the square hew'd log shaping it toward | M2 |
| the shape of a mast | M2 |
| The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine | A |
| The butter color'd chips flying off in great flakes and slivers | B3 |
| The limber motion of brawny young arms and hips in easy costumes | G3 |
| The constructor of wharves bridges piers bulk heads floats stays | H3 |
| against the sea | D2 |
| The city fireman the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close | I3 |
| pack'd square | L2 |
| The arriving engines the hoarse shouts the nimble stepping and | M2 |
| daring | V2 |
| The strong command through the fire trumpets the falling in line | A |
| the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water | X2 |
| The slender spasmic blue white jets the bringing to bear of the | A2 |
| hooks and ladders and their execution | A |
| The crash and cut away of connecting wood work or through floors if | J3 |
| the fire smoulders under them | W2 |
| The crowd with their lit faces watching the glare and dense | K3 |
| shadows | L3 |
| The forger at his forge furnace and the user of iron after him | M3 |
| The maker of the axe large and small and the welder and temperer | X2 |
| The chooser breathing his breath on the cold steel and trying the | A2 |
| edge with his thumb | N3 |
| The one who clean shapes the handle and sets it firmly in the | A2 |
| socket | M2 |
| The shadowy processions of the portraits of the past users also | Q |
| The primal patient mechanics the architects and engineers | O3 |
| The far off Assyrian edifice and Mizra edifice | R2 |
| The Roman lictors preceding the consuls | R2 |
| The antique European warrior with his axe in combat | M2 |
| The uplifted arm the clatter of blows on the helmeted head | M2 |
| The death howl the limpsey tumbling body the rush of friend and foe | Q |
| thither | X2 |
| The siege of revolted lieges determin'd for liberty | D2 |
| The summons to surrender the battering at castle gates the truce | R2 |
| and parley | D2 |
| The sack of an old city in its time | P3 |
| The bursting in of mercenaries and bigots tumultuously and | M2 |
| disorderly | D2 |
| Roar flames blood drunkenness madness | R2 |
| Goods freely rifled from houses and temples screams of women in the | A2 |
| gripe of brigands | R2 |
| Craft and thievery of camp followers men running old persons | R2 |
| despairing | V2 |
| The hell of war the cruelties of creeds | R2 |
| The list of all executive deeds and words just or unjust | M2 |
| The power of personality just or unjust | M2 |
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| Muscle and pluck forever | X2 |
| What invigorates life invigorates death | Q3 |
| And the dead advance as much as the living advance | R2 |
| And the future is no more uncertain than the present | M2 |
| And the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the | A2 |
| delicatesse of the earth and of man | A |
| And nothing endures but personal qualities | R2 |
| What do you think endures | R2 |
Walt Whitman
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