I knew where the verbs went and adjective endings,
both case and declension unerringly rending.
My grasp of grammatik was quite without par,
It's just a damn shame 'bout the vokabular.
A visit to Deutschland soon flushed out the problem;
I'd stand there quite speechless, a linguistic golem.
From menus to shopping, from signposts to guides,
my face would be red as a mandrill's backside.
I'd stutter and stammer and pull silly faces,
with pointing and hand gestures filling the spaces.
The cop-out solution brought failure's harsh sting,
as every damn noun was replaced by a "thing".
So "ein Ding", "zwei Dinge", "die Dinge da drĂ¼ben",
was met with amusement and some disapprovin'.
A good grasp of grammar is hardly much use
if knowledge of vocab's a sorry excuse.
Form: There probably is a name for it out there somewhere. A quick internet search tells me it's two lines amphibrachic tetrameter then two lines amphibrachic tetrameter catalectic, with a-a-b-b rhyme. (Well, it certainly sounds more impressive than "doggerel".)
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