A LITTLE VERSE, OR WORSE

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 this verse

Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?

Beard sounds not the same as heard;

Cord is not at all like word.

Cow is cow, but low is low;

Shoe is never rhymed with foe.

Think of hose and dose and lose,

And of goose, and then of 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?

We have blood and food and good;

Mould is not pronounced like could.

How come done but gone and lone?

Is there any reason known?

So in short it seems to me,

Sounds and spelling don't agree.