The Trade of Bridging is a ribald poetic form intended to express pleasure with Lelgo the South Wealths which grew out of the performances of The Barbarous Curses. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single octet. Use of metaphor is characteristic of the form. Forms of parallelism are common throughout the poem, in that certain lines often share an underlying meaning and they reverse grammatical structures. The third line of the octet is required to maintain the phrasing of the first line. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBCDDCA.