A noun's an egg, a bird's a verb;
adjectives are speckles on the shell.
Come into the woods, my pretty dove,
what makes you crake and quail?
How swift she was gulled: he snaped her.
He storked her, though he had to crane;
she ducked, but he just swanned in -
which gave her quite a tern.
He wanted to tit and to shag
and she could scarcely resist his allure.
Has she bittern, did she swallow,
was he planning to shrike and skua?
It was a lark - and it was fowl,
when all's been done and said:
the egg's still warm, the bird takes wing -
adverbs are how the leaves flicker overhead.
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