How the water comes down at Lodore

Here it comes sparkling,

And there it lies darkling,

Here smoking and frothing,

Its tumult and wrath in,

It hastens along, conflicting strong;

Now striking and raging,

As if the war waging,

Its caverns and rocks among,

Rising and leaping,

Sinking and creeping,

Swelling and flinging,

Showering and springing,

Eddying and whisking,

Spouting and frisking,

Turning and twisting,

Around and around;

With endless rebound;

Smiting and fighting,

A sight to delight in,

Confounding astounding,

Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.

Receding and speeding,

And shocking and rocking

And darting and parting,

And threading and spreading.

And whizzing and hissing,

And dripping and skipping,

And brightening and whitening.

And quivering and shivering,

And glittering and flittering,

And foaming and roaming,

And working and jerking,

And heaving and cleaving,

And thundering and floundering,

And falling and crawling and sprawling,

And driving and riving and striving,

And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling,

And sounding and bounding and rounding

And bubbling and troubling and doubling,

Dividing and gliding and sliding,

And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling,

And clattering and battering and shattering,

And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming,

And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing,

And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping,

And curling and whirling and purling and twirling,

Retreating and meeting, and beating and sheeting,

Delaying and straying and playing and spraying,

Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing,

Recoiling, turmoiling, and toiling, and boiling,

And thumping and plumping and bumping, and jumping,

And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing;

And so never ending and always descending,

Sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending;

All at once, and all o’er, with a mighty uproar, –

And in this way the water comes down at Lodore.

R. Southey

Read the words in bold type explaining the reading rules of

them. Read the poem observing the reading rules.

ENGLISH FOR FOREIGNERS

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and coughand dough?

Others may stumble but not you,

On hiccough, thorough, lough and through.

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird,

And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -

For goodness sake don't call it 'deed'!

Watch out for meat and great and threat.

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)

A moth is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, broth in brother,

And here is not a match for there,

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and choose.

And cork and work and card and ward.

And font and front and word and sword,

And do and go and thwart and cart -

Come, come, I've hardly made a start!

A dreadful language? Man alive!

I'd mastered it when I was five!

Read the poem.

Time when work is done is leisure,

Fill up with useful pleasure.

Accidental, accident,

Sound the g in ignorant.

Relative, but a relation,

Then say creature but creation.

Say the a in gas quite short,

Bought remember rhymes with thwart,

Drought must always rhyme with bout,

In daughter leave the gh out.

Please remember, say towards

Just as if it rhymed with boards.

Weight’s like wait, but not like height,

Which should always rhyme with might.

Sew is just the same as so,

Tie a ribbon in a bow.

When you meet a queen you bow,

Which again must rhyme with how.

In perfect English make a start.

Learn this little rhyme by heart.

Can you think of a rhyme for: pleasure Ex. pleasure – treasure

relation bought – brought

bout

short

might

start

how

boards

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