Dearest Creature in creation

'dɪәrɪst 'kri:tʃә ɪn krɪ'әɪʃn

Studying English pronunciation

s'tʌdɪŋ 'ɪŋglɪʃ prә'nʌntsɪәɪʃn

I will teach you in my verse

ɑɪ wɪl tɪtʃ jә ɪn mɑɪ vᴈ:s

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

sәʊndᴢ lɑɪk kᴐ:ps kᴐ:r hᴐ:s әn wᴈ:s

I will keep you, Susy, busy,

ɑɪ wɪl ki:p jә 'sʊᴢɪ 'bɪᴢi

Make your head with heat grow dizzy;

meɪk jᴐ: hed wɪð hi:t grәʊ 'dɪᴢi

Tear in eye your dress you’ll tear;

'tɪәr ɪn aɪ jᴐ: dres jul 'tɪәr

Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer,

kuɪәr feәr sɪәr hɪәr maɪ 'preɪәr

Pray, console your loving poet,

'preɪ kәn'sәʊl jᴐ: 'lʌvɪŋ 'pәʊәt

Make my coat look new, dear sew it!

meɪk maɪ kәʊt lu:k nju: dɪә: sәʊ it

Just compare heart, beard and heard,

dzasᴛ kom'pe: ha:ᴛ 'bɪәɖ әn hᴈ:d

Dies and diet, Lord and word,

dыs әn 'daɪәᴛ lᴐ:d әn ᴡᴈ:d

Sword and sward, retain and Britain

sᴐ:d әn sᴡᴐ:d rɪ'ᴛәɪn әn 'brɪᴛn

(Mind the latter how it is written);

mɑɪnd ðә 'læᴛә: hәʊ ɪᴛ ɪᴢ 'rɪᴛn

Made has not the sound of bade,

meɪd hәᴢ nɒᴛ ðә saʊnd әv bæd

Say, said, pay, laid but not plaid.

seɪ sed peɪ leɪd bʌᴛ nɒᴛ plæd

Now I surely will not plague you

Nәu ɑɪ 'ʃuәli wɪl nɒᴛ pleɪg ju

With such words as vague and ague,

wɪð sʌtʃ ᴡᴈ:ds әs veɪg әn 'eɪgju:

But be careful how you speak,

bʌᴛ bɪ 'keә:fl hәʊ jә spi:k

Say gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak,

seɪ gʌʃ bʊʃ sᴛɪk sti:k breɪk bli:k

Previous, precious, fuchsia, via,

'pri:viәs 'preʃәs 'fju:ʃә 'vaɪә

Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir,

'resɪpi 'paɪp s'ᴛәdɪŋ'seɪl kwaɪә

Woven, oven, how and low,

'wәʊvn 'ʌvn hәʊ әn lәʊ

Script, receipts, shoe, poem, toe.

skrɪpt rɪ'si:ts ʃu: 'pәʊәm tәʊ

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,

hɪә mɪ seɪ dɪ'vᴐɪd әv 'trɪkәri

Daughter, laghter, and Terpsichore

'dᴐ:tә 'lɑ:ftә әn te:p'sɪkәri

Typhoid, measles, topsail, aisles

taɪ'fᴐɪd 'mi:ᴢlᴢ tɑp'seɪl aɪlᴢ

Exiles, similes, reviles,

ek'saɪlᴢ 'sɪmɪliᴢ rɪ'vaɪlᴢ