Really Awfully Wise; or Why, Oh Wye, Oh Y!

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I simply cannot handle:
All HANDLES on it seem
Locked up, or snuffed like candle;
I shall attempt the job
By trying to get by with
The turning of a knob
Of verse, to tell you ‘Why’ with! 

Then, at the selfsame time,
For Sonel and for Nessy,
These WORDS provide the rhyme
(Though picture’s a bit messy);
That they are quite absurd
Is not at all surprising –
On different kinds of word
I’ve been economising! 

Why does the Wye not form a Y?

 

‘Why’ is a dog … for in Latin it’s ‘cur’;
Why is a cat … always shedding its fur?
Wye is three rivers the UK get round –
Widespread; in Oz., N.Z., Maryland, found;
Y is a letter not terribly straight,
While you find foxes have wiliness great;
Wife is another with devious ways,
Wi-Fi and wifey your peace can erase!
Whydah with pin-tail in Africa lives,
Wine, if too much, whining hangover gives;
                           Wipe out with whitewash this wild-raving wight!
                                     Wire we reading?  Lost contact ker-wite!

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