March To Moscow, The Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The Emperor Nap he would set offA
On a summer excursion to MoscowB
The fields were green and the sky was blueC
Morbleu ParbleuC
What a splendid excursion to MoscowB
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Four hundred thousand men and moreD
Must go with him to MoscowB
There were Marshals by the dozenE
And Dukes by the scoreD
Princes a few and Kings one or twoC
While the fields are so green and the sky so blueC
Morbleu ParbleuC
What a pleasant excursion to MoscowB
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There was Junot and AugereauD
Heigh ho for MoscowB
Dombrowsky and PoniatowskyB
Marshall Ney lack a dayF
General Rapp and the Emperor NapG
Nothing would doC
While the fields were so green and the sky so blueC
Morbleu ParbleuC
Nothing would doC
For the whole of his crewC
But they must be marching to MoscowB
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The Emperor Nap he talk'd so bigB
That he frighten'd Mr RoscoeB
John Bull he cries if you'll be wiseH
Ask the Emperor Nap if he will pleaseI
To grant you peace upon your kneesI
Because he is going to MoscowB
He'll make all the Poles come out of their holesJ
And beat the Russians and eat the PrussiansJ
For the fields are green and the sky is blueC
Morbleu ParbleuC
And he'll certainly march to MoscowB
And Counsellor Brougham was all in a fumeK
At the thought of the march to MoscowB
The Russians he said they were undoneE
And the great Fee Faw FumK
Would presently comeK
With a hop step and jump unto LondonE
For as for his conquering RussiaJ
However some persons might scoff itL
Do it he could do it he wouldM
And from doing it nothing would come but goodM
And nothing could call him off itL
Mr Jeffrey said so who must certainly knowB
For he was the Edinburgh ProphetN
They all of them knew Mr Jeffrey's ReviewC
Which with Holy Writ ought to be reckon'dO
It was through thick and thin to its party trueC
Its back was buff and its sides were blueC
Morbleu ParbleuC
It served them for law and for gospel tooC
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But the Russians stoutly they turned toC
Upon the road to MoscowB
Nap had to fight his way all throughC
They could fight though they could not parlez vousC
But the fields were green and the sky was blueC
Morbleu ParbleuC
And so he got to MoscowB
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He found the place too warm for himK
For they set fire to MoscowB
To get there had cost him much adoC
And then no better course he knewC
While the fields were green and the sky was blueC
Morbleu ParbleuC
But to march back again from MoscowB
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The Russians they stuck close to himK
All on the road from MoscowB
There was Tormazow and JemalowC
And all the others that end in owB
Milarodovitch and JaladovitchP
And KaratschkowitchP
And all the others that end in itchP
Schamscheff SouchosaneffC
And SchepaleffC
And all the others that end in effC
Wasiltschikoff KotsomaroffC
And TchoglokoffC
And all the others that end in offC
Rajeffsky and NovereffskyB
And RieffskyB
And all the others that end in effskyB
Oscharoffsky and RostoffskyB
And all the others that end in offskyB
And Platoff he play'd them offC
And Shouvaloff he shovell'd them offC
And Markoff he mark'd them offC
And Krosnoff he cross'd them offC
And Touchkoff he touch'd them offC
And Boroskoff he bored them offC
And Kutousoff he cut them offC
And Parenzoff he pared them offC
And Worronzoff he worried them offC
And Doctoroff he doctor'd them offC
And Rodinoff he flogg'd them offC
And last of all an Admiral cameK
A terrible man with a terrible nameK
A name which you all know by sight very wellC
But which no one can speak and no one can spellC
They stuck close to Nap with all their mightQ
They were on the left and on the rightQ
Behind and before and by day and by nightQ
He would rather parlez vous than fightQ
But he look'd white and he look'd blueC
Morbleu ParbleuC
When parlez vous no more would doC
For they remember'd MoscowB
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And then came on the frost and snowB
All on the road from MoscowB
The wind and the weather he found in that hourD
Cared nothing for him nor for all his powerD
For him who while Europe crouch'd under his rodR
Put his trust in his Fortune and not in his GodR
Worse and worse every day the elements grewC
The fields were so white and the sky was so blueC
Sacrebleu VentrebleuC
What a horrible journey from MoscowB
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What then thought the Emperor NapG
Upon the road from MoscowB
Why I ween he thought it small delightQ
To fight all day and to freeze all nightQ
And he was besides in a very great frightQ
For a whole skin he liked to be inS
And so not knowing what else to doC
When the fields were so white and the sky so blueC
Morbleu ParbleuC
He stole away I tell you trueC
Upon the road from MoscowB
'Tis myself quoth he I must mind mostT
So the devil may take the hindmostT
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Too cold upon the road was heU
Too hot had he been at MoscowB
But colder and hotter he may beU
For the grave is colder than MoscovyC
And a place there is to be kept in viewC
Where the fire is red and the brimstone blueC
Morbleu ParbleuC
Which he must go toC
If the Pope say trueC
If he does not in time look about himK
Where his namesake almostT
He may have for his HostT
He has reckon'd too long without himK
If that Host get him in PurgatoryU
He won't leave him there alone with his gloryU
But there he must stay for a very long dayT
For from thence there is no stealing awayT
As there was on the road from MoscowB

Robert Southey



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