Crying For Bread Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDD FDFDD AGAGHDHDD AIAIADADD| Please lady please pay my Ma for her sewing | A |
| The suit fits you splendidly that you'll allow | B |
| Oh don't say tomorrow I see you are going | A |
| But this will not hinder long please pay me now | B |
| Ma work'd all night for you ev'ry minute | C |
| Now she lies groaning with pain in her head | D |
| And there by the pantry with not a thing in it | E |
| Sits poor little Theodore crying for bread | D |
| Poor little Theodore crying for bread | D |
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| On driver on they have all gone before us | F |
| And I will not be late at the ball Beauty said | D |
| And wintry winds echoed her answer in chorus | F |
| With poor little Theodore crying for bread | D |
| Poor little Theodore crying for bread | D |
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| Please lady please pay my Ma for her sewing | A |
| I'll run and get change for you Don't call me bold | G |
| But how could you dance tonight all the time knowing | A |
| That we were left suffering hungry and cold | G |
| Ma looks so wild she keeps calling for Daisy | H |
| That was the name of my sister that's dead | D |
| Oh what shall I do with my Ma going crazy | H |
| And poor little Theodore cryiing for bread | D |
| Poor little Theodore crying for bread | D |
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| Please lady please pay my Ma for her sewing | A |
| She must have some medicine that let me buy | I |
| Now don't speak of beggars 'tis money you're owing | A |
| Do please pay me part of it else we must die | I |
| On the wheels roll'd and Fidele returned weeping | A |
| Ah in her absence a spirit had fled | D |
| And morning light found her a weary watch keeping | A |
| With poor little Theodore crying for bread | D |
| Poor little Theodore crying for bread | D |
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