Summary

The source text, annotated by me with pronunciation hints, may be found on a Wikisource user page.

In general, many words have been pronounced using uncommon, dated, or outright archaic pronunciations, for maximum effect; for instance, “wont” is now usually a homophone of “want”, but has here been pronounced like “won’t”, as that produces a sound not otherwise heard in this line of the poem. The following specific issues may be notable:

• It is unclear how “food” and “should” are supposed to rhyme; I decided to make “food” match “should”, pronouncing it with a vowel sound more like “foot”.
• Likewise, it is unclear how “parquet” and “darky” are supposed to rhyme; in this case, I fudged “darky” to bring it closer to “parquet”.
• In the line Writing "groats" and saying groats?, the first occurrence of “groats” has been deliberately mispronounced (like “oats”); I feel that this makes the line clearer to understand, and the source text also allows some distinction between them by making one italic and enclosing the other in quotation marks.

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