The Chaos
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Just compare heart, beard and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is give it up!
Gerard Nolst Trenité, The Chaos (1922), Disponível em http://www.poemhunter.com. Adaptado.
Em “The Chaos”, o poeta, ao fazer jogos com as palavras, demonstra