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For those that haven't tried. See how far you can get reading this poem out loud...
What in the hell
I got to head and read it as head and gave up..
What's up with made/bade? I pronounce those the same way.
It's a 100 year old poem, I'm guessing it was pronounced different in that area at the time.
Bade is the past tense of "bid" and is technically pronounced the same as "bad". Link: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bade
Essentially, the pronunciation follows the same pattern as words like "sit - sat", but the spelling pattern follows a different Old English pattern.
Ha that is great! Like a maze for your mind and mouth. However that poem is now 100 years old, so I did notice some spelling and pronunciation errors :)
About halfway through I got a headache and had to lay down
It is a particularly masochistic poem to read aloud. 😁