Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADED FGHG IJDK KLML NHCH| Give us this day our daily bread | A |
| Oh children when you pray | B |
| And morn and night repeat these words | C |
| Think what it is you say | B |
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| You never asked a piece of bread | A |
| And had that wish denied | D |
| For food to eat and some to spare | E |
| Has always been supplied | D |
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| But o'er the ocean many a cheek | F |
| With want grows thin and pale | G |
| And many suffer like the boy | H |
| Of whom I tell this tale | G |
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| He lay upon some scattered straw | I |
| His strength was almost gone | J |
| And in a feeble voice he cried | D |
| Give me three grains of corn | K |
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| Three grains from out his jacket torn | K |
| His trembling mother drew | L |
| 'Twas all she had she gave them him | M |
| Though she was starving too | L |
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| Be very grateful children then | N |
| For all that you enjoy | H |
| Remembering as you say those words | C |
| The little Irish boy | H |
H. P. Nichols
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