Analysis of The Charge Of The Bread Brigade
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Half a loaf, half a loaf,
Half a loaf? Urn-hum?
Down through the vale of gloom
Slouched the ten million,
Onward th' 'ungry blokes,
Crackin' their smutty jokes!
We'll send 'em mouchin' 'ome,
Damn the ten million!
There goes the night brigade,
They got no steady trade,
Several old so'jers know
Monty has blunder'd.
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to buy the pie,
Slouching and mouching,
Lousy ten million!
Plenty to right of 'em,
Plenty to left of 'em,
Yes, wot is left of 'em,
Damn the ten million.
Stormed at by press and all,
How shall we dress 'em all?
Glooming and mouching!
See 'em go slouching there,
With cowed and crouching air
Dundering dullards!
How the whole nation shook
While Milord Beaverbrook
Fed 'em with hogwash!
| Scheme | xaxbccaB ddxxeefb gggBhhf iicffx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 10111 110111 10110 101111 1111 11111 10110 110101 111101 10111 10110 111101 111101 1001 10110 101111 101111 111111 10110 111101 111111 101 111101 110101 11 101101 111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 714 |
| Words | 132 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 7, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 29 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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