This Bread I Break Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNN| This bread I break was once the oat | A |
| This wine upon a foreign tree | B |
| Plunged in its fruit | C |
| Man in the day or wine at night | D |
| Laid the crops low broke the grape's joy | E |
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| Once in this time wine the summer blood | F |
| Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine | G |
| Once in this bread | H |
| The oat was merry in the wind | I |
| Man broke the sun pulled the wind down | J |
| - | |
| This flesh you break this blood you let | K |
| Make desolation in the vein | L |
| Were oat and grape | M |
| Born of the sensual root and sap | N |
| My wine you drink my bread you snap | N |
Dylan Thomas
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Anthony Lee: The poem is quoted incorrectly, not only here but on several other sites. It seems to be a virus.
"Man in the day or _wine_ at night" should be "_wind_ at night." And in line 1 verse 2, "time" does not belong: "Once in this wine the summer blood..."
Allison Bridges-Matthews: some of the "wine" should be "wind" as per
https://archive.org/details/poems0000thom_q9m0/page/86/mode/2up?q=this+bread
Gwen Podbrey: Magnificent, in its sorrow, its references to the holy communion bread and wine, to the words of Christ and in our misguidedness in what we choose to revere - and to desecrate. The image of the wine (the blood of summer) knocking inside the veins is unforgettable. Written as only Dylan Thomas could.
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