Rhyme For A Phonetician

Brave English language, you are strong as trees,

Yet intricate and stately.

Thus one

Through branches clear-embroidered stars.

You

Our sense as damask roses on the breeze,

And barns that smell of hay, and bread-and-cheese.

Rustic yet Roman, yours are

Sonorous as the seas sound.

On my kneesI would give thanks for all your words.

Yet

Our legacy and our delight he'd

And nip and dock and drill, to write with

Kornershul memoz faw the Pawchoogeese.