Dearest creature in creation, One, anemone, Balmoral, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Petal, panel,

gauze, gouge and gauge, Petal, panel, and canal,

Study English pronunciation. Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
I will teach you in my verse Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Query does not rhyme with very, Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Nor does fury sound like bury. Senator, spectator, mayor.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Tour, but our and succour, four.
Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear. Blood and flood are not like food, Though the differences seem little, Sea, idea, Korea, area,
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Nor is mould like should and would. We say actual but victual. Psalm, Maria, but malaria.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Dies and diet, lord and word, Toward, to forward, to reward. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Sword and sward, retain and Britain. And your pronunciation’s OK Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Compare alien with Italian,
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) When you correctly say croquet, Dull, bull, and George ate late. Dandelion and battalion.

Now I surely will not plague you Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Sally with ally, yea, ye,
With such words as plaque and ague. Friend and fiend, alive and live. Science, conscience, scientific. Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
But be careful how you speak: Ivy, privy, famous; clamour Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Say aver, but ever, fever,
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; And enamour rhyme with hammer. Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.

Cloven, oven, how and low, River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, We say hallowed, but allowed, Heron, granary, canary.
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Doll and roll and some and home. People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Crevice and device and aerie.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Mark the differences, moreover, Face, but preface, not efface.
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Neither does devour with clangour. Between mover, cover, clover; Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Exiles, similes, and reviles; Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Chalice, but police and lice; Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, Camel, constable, unstable, Hiccough has the sound of cup.
Solar, mica, war and far; And then singer, ginger, linger, Principle, disciple, label. My advice is to give up!!!
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)

Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?

It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:

Strewn with stones, stowed, solace,
gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough,

Though, through, plough, or dough, or
cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!