A strange tongue
When the English tongue we speak,
Why is breaknot rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it's true
We say sew but also few?
And the maker of a verse
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard,
And cord is different from word
Cow is cow but low is low.
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Now since payis rhymed with say,
Why not paidwith said, I pray?
There is bloodand roodand good;
Also mould, so unlike could.
Wherefore done, but goneand lone?
Is there any reason known?
Thus in short, it seems to me
Sounds and letters disagree !