[cmehdy]

The Chaos (1922) - http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

More than half of my life lived in English-speaking countries does not help quite enough to avoid a migraine with this one.

[teddyh]

Complete version as originally published in 1920: <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chaos>

[looping8]

I have seen similar joke poems but this one was too much for me. I even saw words I never heard of before, like "sward". For anyone like me - it's a lawn or a meadow.

[thfuran]

>Made has not the sound of bade

Doesn't it though?

[pja]

I think you might argue that the a in bade is stressed whereas the a in made is unstressed?

Otherwise I agree, there’s no difference between the two in my dialect.

Wiktionary suggests that it can be a homophone with bad in some dialects though, so perhaps that’s what the author was thinking of?

[filterfish]

That's fantastic!