The Charge Of The Bread Brigade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEECD FFGHIIJD CCCDKKJ LLEJJM| Half a loaf half a loaf | A |
| Half a loaf Urn hum | B |
| Down through the vale of gloom | C |
| Slouched the ten million | D |
| Onward th' 'ungry blokes | E |
| Crackin' their smutty jokes | E |
| We'll send 'em mouchin' 'ome | C |
| Damn the ten million | D |
| - | |
| There goes the night brigade | F |
| They got no steady trade | F |
| Several old so'jers know | G |
| Monty has blunder'd | H |
| Theirs not to reason why | I |
| Theirs but to buy the pie | I |
| Slouching and mouching | J |
| Lousy ten million | D |
| - | |
| Plenty to right of 'em | C |
| Plenty to left of 'em | C |
| Yes wot is left of 'em | C |
| Damn the ten million | D |
| Stormed at by press and all | K |
| How shall we dress 'em all | K |
| Glooming and mouching | J |
| - | |
| See 'em go slouching there | L |
| With cowed and crouching air | L |
| Dundering dullards | E |
| How the whole nation shook | J |
| While Milord Beaverbrook | J |
| Fed 'em with hogwash | M |
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