Especially interesting point when you ask about the meter, or the form, as I suspect you also meant. Not that I can put a name to it, but it seems typical to me of comic 'working class' (whatever that is in this day and age) doggerel. Pam Ayers may well have loved it, bless her heart. I saw someone at Cambridge folk festival (197*?) reciting something which, from memory, went a bit like this:
Times were very hard in the French Revolution
They didn't do things by halves
Woman sat watching their men go to the guillotine
And mistakenly knitted them scarves
...
etc.
And there's always
The Lion and Albert .
Not JB's forte, as you say, because it's not really his crowd, but he might have been trying a cloth cap on his graces with 'Variations on a Theme...'
For a bit more orientation for non Brits - if I'm not mistaken the Joan Hunter-Dunn was women's singles champion at Wimbledon once, when they didn't scream and argue with umpires.
I notice that Pam Ayers parody of Wendy Copes also trip over a mass of no-meter-in-particular-sort-of-syllables-that-sound-like-they-were-exchanged-in-a-fish-and-chip-queue, by way of getting to the end-rhyme.
Maybe not the working class, but boy did he get the
nouveau riche:
Executive
I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner;
I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina.
In every roadside hostelry from here to Burgess Hill
The maîtres d'hôtel all know me well, and let me sign the bill.
You ask me what it is I do. Well, actually, you know,
I'm partly a liaison man, and partly P.R.O.
Essentially, I integrate the current export drive
And basically I'm viable from ten o'clock till five.
For vital off-the-record work - that's talking transport-wise -
I've a scarlet Aston-Martin - and does she go? She flies!
Pedestrians and dogs and cats, we mark them down for slaughter.
I also own a speedboat which has never touched the water.
She's built of fibre-glass, of course. I call her 'Mandy Jane'
After a bird I used to know - No soda, please, just plain -
And how did I acquire her? Well, to tell you about that
And to put you in the picture, I must wear my other hat.
I do some mild developing. The sort of place I need
Is a quiet country market town that's rather run to seed
A luncheon and a drink or two, a little savoir faire -
I fix the Planning Officer, the Town Clerk and the Mayor.
And if some Preservationist attempts to interfere
A 'dangerous structure' notice from the Borough Engineer
Will settle any buildings that are standing in our way -
The modern style, sir, with respect, has really come to stay.