Analysis of Our Daily Bread



Now, this our daily bread
Without butter, without tea
It is so sour in taste
And somehow we wish
That we could say no
But it's almost impossible.

Daily, they say they're having a meeting
A crucial meeting
In a vast group
Some having long unshaved beards
Clearing their throats
As if they have catarrh.

This is their daily "wise saying"
"We are looking into the matter"
"The matter of the country and security"
They feed us with bitter lies
Whereas, they meet and talk
And flush it down with wine.

"Daily Bread" we call it
But it chokes us so bad
To the extent that we've lost our voices
We can't chew it
It's permanent abode is our throat
Someday, we'll spew it out!!!


Scheme XAXXXX BBXXXC BCAXXX DXXDXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101 0110011 1111001 0111 11111 1110100 1011110010 01010 0011 110111 1011 11111 11110110 111001010 010101000100 1111101 011101 011111 101111 111111 10011111010 1111 1100011101 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 671
Words 131
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 130
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

This poem is about the country, Nigeria. It's about the politians and their nonchalant attitude towards the masses in the nation.

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Submitted by pamsolledimas1 on October 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dimas Pamsolle Makka

I'm from Adamawa State,Nigeria. I am twenty-five years old and a teacher. I studied English and Literary Studies in the Taraba State University. more…

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