I
did find it a bit tricky to read at first, John; then I realised that you have to say the plural word for each piece of punctuation. You could, of course, submit it with the full words in, except for the last line, which would still be effective - like this:
(Your last stanza is a killer!
)
Hail Punctuation! Elegant Examples
Of Full Dress Language! Shall I show you samples?
Firstly, beloved by poet and by clerk,
The
question mark and
exclamation mark.
Colons and
semicolons and
full stops
Keep order in our sentences, like cops.
THE UPPER CASE DENOTES THE VIP,
while lower case will do for you and me.
Commas are little tadpoles, meant for pauses
In lists of words, in phrases and in clauses.
Inverted commas, pairs of ears, float
Above the line and signify a 'quote'.
modernist poet ee cummings banned
all punctuation but the
ampersand.
Asterisks serve to keep us all polite
,
When we say wh
*rehouse, b
*gger, f
*ck or sh
*te.