When the English tongue we speak
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it’s true
We say sew, but likewise few?
And why the maker of e verse
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard sounds not the same as heard
Cord is different from word.
Cow is cow, but low is low
Shoe is never rhymed with foe
Think of hose or nose, then dose and lose
And think of goose yet choose.
Think of comb and tomb and bomb
Doll and roll and home and some
And since pay is rhymed with say
Why not paid with said, I pray?
Think of blood and food and good
Mould is not pronounced like could
Wherefore done and gone and lone?
Is there any reason known?
