User:Lucas Werkmeister/The Chaos

Copy of Ruize-rijmen/De Chaos annotated with pronunciation hints for my own use. For full attribution, see the histories of that page and Page:Ruize-rijmen 1922.pdf/141, Page:Ruize-rijmen 1922.pdf/142, Page:Ruize-rijmen 1922.pdf/143, Page:Ruize-rijmen 1922.pdf/144, Page:Ruize-rijmen 1922.pdf/145.

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Gerard Nolst Trenité – The Chaos.

Dearest creature in Creation, Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. It will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye your dress you'll tear. So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer, Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it? Just compare heart, beard and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and swards w ord, retain and Britain, (Mind the latter, how it's written!) Made has not the sound of badebad , Say— saidsad, pay— paidpayd , laidlayd , but plaidplad. Now I surely will not plague you With such words as vague and ague, But be careful how you speak, Say break, steak, but bleak and streak, Previous, precious; fuchsiafew sha, via; Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir, Cloven, ovenavven ; how and low; Script, receipt<rt>receit</rt> ; shoe, poem, toe, Hear me say, devoid of trickery: Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore, Typhoid; measles<rt title="both s voiced">meazlez</rt>, topsails<rt title="last s voiced">topselz</rt> , aisles<rt title="last s voiced">I-lz</rt> ; Exiles, similes, reviles; Wholly, holly; signal, signing; Thames<rt>temz</rt> ; examining, combining; Scholar, vicar<rt>vicker</rt> and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far. From "desire": desirable<rt>deSIrable</rt> — admirable<rt>ADmirable</rt> from "admire"; Lumber<rt>lumber</rt>, plumber plumer</rt> ; bier<rt>beer</rt> but brier; Chatham<rt>chat-am</rt>, brougham<rt>brew-am</rt> ; renown but known, Knowledge; done<rt>dann</rt>, but gone and tone, One, anemone; Balmoral; Kitchen, lichen<rt>lai-ken</rt> ; laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German; wind and mind; Scene, Melpomene, mankind; Tortoise<rt>tohrtis</rt>, turquoise<rt>ter-kwois</rt> , chamois<rt>shammy</rt> -leather, Reading, Reading, heathen headhen</rt>, heather headher</rt>. This phonetic labyrinth Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch<rt>broach</rt>, ninth, plinth. Billet<rt>billit</rt> does not end like ballet<rt>baley</rt> ; Bouquet<rt>bookey</rt>, wallet<rt>wolet</rt> , mallet<rt>mälit</rt> , chalet<rt>chaley</rt> ; Blood<rt>blad</rt> and flood<rt title="rhymes with blood">flad</rt> are not like food<rt title="don’t make the u too long, this is supposed to rhyme with would somehow">fud</rt> , Nor is mould like should and would. Banquet<rt>ban-quit</rt> is not nearly parquet<rt title="rhymes with okay">parkay</rt> , Which is said to rime with "darky"<rt title="also spelled darkey, but supposedly only pronounced rhyming with key; try to make it match parquet a bit, I guess">dark e y</rt>. Viscous, viscount; load and broad; Toward<rt title="can have two syllables, but here one syllable fits the metre better">tward</rt>, to forward<rt>FORward</rt> , to reward, And your pronunciation's O.K. When you say correctly croquet; Rounded, wounded; grieve and sieve<rt>siv</rt> ; Friend and fiend; alive and live; Liberty, library; heave and heaven; Rachel, ache, moustache; eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed; People, leopard; towed<rt>toad</rt>, but vowed Mark the difference, moreover, Between mover<rt>muver</rt>, plover<rt>plaver</rt> , Dover, Leeches, breeches<rt>britches</rt> ; wise<rt title="voiced s!">wise</rt>, precise<rt title="should rhyme with lice, i. e. hard, voiceless s?">precaiß</rt> ; Chalice but police and lice. Camel; constable, unstable; Principle, disciple; label; Petal petl</rt>, penal<rt>peenal</rt> and canal<rt>canäl</rt> ; Wait, surmise<rt title="rhymes with surprise">surmais</rt>, plait<rt>plat</rt> , promise; pal<rt>päl</rt>. Suit<rt>suht</rt>, suite<rt>sweet</rt> , run<rt>ruin</rt>ruin [sic], circuit, conduit<rt>condit</rt> Rime with "shirk it" and "beyond it", But it is not hard to tell, Why it's pall<rt>poll</rt>, mall<rt>moll</rt> , but Pall Mall<rt>päll mäll</rt>. Muscle, muscular; gaol<rt>JAil</rt> ; iron; Timber, climber climer</rt> ; bullion, lion, Worm<rt>wörm</rt> and storm<rt title="same o as in normal, formal">storm</rt> ; chaise<rt>shays</rt>, chaos, chair; Senator, spectator, mayor<rt>mare</rt>. Ivy, privy; famous, clamour And enamour rime with "hammer." Pussy, hussy<rt title="related to housewife below">hassy</rt> and possess<rt>pozess</rt>. Desert, but dessert<rt>deZERT</rt>, address. Golf, wolf<rt>wulf</rt> ; countenance<rt>kauntenance</rt> ; lieutenants<rt>leftenants</rt> Hoist, in lieu<rt>lju</rt> of flags, left pennants. River, rival; tomb<rt>tuhm</rt>, bomb<rt>bom</rt> , comb<rt>coum</rt> ; Doll<rt title="rhymes with German toll">doll</rt> and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rime with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Soul, but foul and gaunt<rt>gawnt</rt>, but aunt<rt title="like in father">aahnt</rt> ; Font, front<rt>frunt</rt>, wont<rt>won’t</rt> ; want, grand<rt title="rhymes with and">gränd</rt> , and, grant<rt>graahnt</rt> , Shoes, goes, does<rt>dous</rt>. ) Now first say: finger fin-ger</rt>, And then: singer<rt title="no separate g, like German Finger">siŋer</rt> , ginger, linger. Real<rt>re-al</rt> , zeal; mauve<rt title="like cove, drove">mouhv</rt> , gauze<rt title="like pause, laws">gaws</rt> and gauge;  Marriage<rt title="two syllables">mar-ridge</rt> , foliage<rt>fo-li-adge</rt> , mirage, age. Query does not rime with very, Nor does fury sound like bury.  Dost<rt>dust</rt> , lost, post and doth<rt>duth</rt> , cloth, loth;  Job<rt>job</rt> , Job<rt>joub</rt> , blossom, bosom<rt>buzz-um</rt> , oath. Though the difference seems little, We say actual, but victual, Seat, sweat, chaste, caste<rt>kähst</rt> ; Leigh<rt>Lee</rt> , eight, height; Put, nut; granite, but unite. Reefer does not rime with "deafer," Feoffer<rt>feffer</rt> does, and zephyr, heifer. Dull<rt>dall</rt>, bull<rt>bull</rt> ; Geoffrey<rt>Jeffrey</rt> , George; ate<rt>ett</rt> , late; Hint, pint; senate, but sedate; Scenic, Arabic, pacific; Science, conscience, scientific; Tour, but our, and succour<rt>sucker</rt>, four; Gas, alas<rt title="rhymes with glass, aläs like gas would also be okay but not such a contrast">alahs</rt> and Arkansas! Sea, idea, guinea, area, Psalm<rt title="like in father">saahm</rt> ; Maria<rt>maREEa</rt>, but malaria; Youth, south, southern; cleanse and clean; Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion<rt>DANdeLIon</rt> with battalion, Sally with ally; yea<rt>yay</rt>, ye, Eye<rt>I</rt>, I<rt>I</rt> , ay<rt>I</rt> , aye<rt>ey</rt> , whey<rt>wäi</rt> , key<rt>ki</rt> , quay<rt>key</rt> ! Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither<rt title="nihther would also be correct but this is probably supposed to contrast with receiver at the end">naither</rt>, leisure<rt tilte="rhymes with pleasure">läsure</rt> , skein<rt title="rhymes with train">skäin</rt> , receiver. Never guess—it is not safe; We say calves<rt title="rhymes with halves, starves">caahvs</rt>, valves<rt>välvs</rt> , half<rt>haahf</rt> , but Ralf! Heron; granary, canary<rt>-airy</rt> ; Crevice, and device, and eyrie; Face but preface, but efface, Phlegm<rt>flem</rt>, phlegmatic<rt title="g not silent!">fle g matic</rt> ; ass<rt>äss</rt> , glass<rt>glaahs</rt> , bass; Large, but target, gin, give, verging; Ought, out, joust<rt>juiced</rt> and scour, but scourging; Ear, but earn; and wear and tear Do not rime with "here", but "ere". Seven is right, but so is even; Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen; Monkey<rt>mankey</rt>, donkey<rt>donkey</rt> ; clerk<rt>clark</rt> and jerk; Asp<rt>äsp</rt>, 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 groats? It's a dark abyss or tunnel, Strewn<rt>stroon</rt> with stones, like rowlock<rt>rollock</rt>, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife<rt>huzzif</rt>, verdict and indict! Don't you think so, reader, rather<rt>raahther</rt> , Saying lather läther</rt>, bather<rt>bayther</rt> , father? Finally: which rimes with "enough," Though, through, plough<rt title="rhymes with cow">plau</rt>, cough<rt>koff</rt> , hough<rt>hock</rt> , or tough? Hiccough has the sound of "cup"...... My advice is—give it up!