Our Daily Bread Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKA KA| Give me my daily bread | A |
| It seems so odd | B |
| When all is done and said | A |
| This plea to God | B |
| To pray for cake might be | C |
| The thing to do | D |
| But bread it seems to me | C |
| Is just our due | D |
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| Give me my daily toil | E |
| I ought to say | F |
| If from life's cursed coil | E |
| I'd time to pray | F |
| Give me my daily sweat | G |
| My body sore | H |
| So that bread I may get | G |
| To toil for more | H |
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| Give me my daily breath | I |
| Through half a sob | J |
| Until untimely death | I |
| Shall end my job | J |
| A crust for my award | K |
| I cry in dread | A |
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| Grant unto me Oh Lord | K |
| My daily bread | A |
Robert Service
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