The Grammar Lesson

I think this poem is really cool because it has a whole lot of word play such as "a can can roll", also in this sentence is the portrayal of how the English language can have two different meaning for the same word. The only imagery it uses is in the repeated line "our can of beets is filled with purple fuzz" throughout the whole poem this is the picture in your head, it's quite a funny picture and it certainly makes it easier to remember the rule stressed in the next frequently repeated line "a nouns a thing and a verb the thing it does." This seems to be the "thesis" or point of the poem, to get this simple grammatical rule across using a very sophisticated style of writing. Also, the poem has rhyming, although in no consistent pattern, (sometimes it skips a line and at the end it is the last two lines which rhyme) this adds to the fun of reading the poem. This poem is also dense in the respect that it conveys both  a grammar lesson and a poetry lesson on how to combine different elements such as rhyme, imagery, and a kind of style which plays with grammar while explaining it at the same time.