I'M taught p-l-o-u-g-h S'all be pronounce "plow." "Zat's easy w'en you know," I say, "Mon Anglais, I'll get through!" My teacher say zat in zat case, O-u-g-h is "oo." And zen I laugh and say to him, "Zees Anglais make me cough." He say "Not 'coo,' but in zat word, O-u-g-h is 'off,'" Oh, Sacre bleu! such varied sounds Of words makes me hiccough! He say, "Again mon frien' ees wrong; O-u-g-h is 'up" In hiccough." Zen I cry, "No more, You make my t'roat feel rough." "Non, non!" he cry, "you are not right; O-u-g-h is 'uff.'" I say, "I try to spik your words, I cannot spik zem though!" "In time you'll learn, but now you're wrong! O-u-g-h is 'owe.'" "I'll try no more, I s'all go mad, I'll drown me in ze lough!" "But ere you drown yourself," said he, "O-u-g-h is 'ock.'" He taught no more, I held him fast, And killed him wiz a rough. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MELANCHOLIA by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE WOLF AND THE DOG by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE TO AMARANTHA, THAT SHE WOULD DISHEVEL HER HAIR by RICHARD LOVELACE WRAITH by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY FRIENDSHIP [OR, THE TRUE FRIEND] by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BETH GELERT; OR, THE GRAVE OF THE GREYHOUND by WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER PICKEN O' SCROFF by WILLIAM BARNES MARATHON, SELECTION by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES ELIJAH AND THE PRIESTS OF BAAL: IN A TIME OF FAMINE by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |