Crown is A Noun

Peter was walking down the road

And picking up a crown

He put it on his tawny head

Saying “This is a noun.”

A goat was trotting up the ditch

And looking ‘neath the crown

He saw Peter, and then exclaimed

“That is a proper noun!”

A girl was sitting on the road

And staring at the curb

She saw Peter jump up on it.

She said: “Why, that’s a verb!”

“How nicely put,” Peter replied

Jumping down off the curb.

He stopped, laughed once, and then declared:

“Imagine! An adverb!”

“I’ll have that,” the goat then said

And seizing Peter’s crown,

He ran off down the road with it.

Called: “That is a pronoun!”

“Come back with that!” Peter shouted

In quite a flaming passion

The girl clapped twice and said with joy

“Now that’s a preposition!”

“You lousy goat, bring back my crown!”

Peter roared, and reflexive-

Ly he stopped, said to himself,

“There goes an adjective.”

“All right,” the goat replied, because

He had had no intention

Of stealing Peter’s crown at all.

He said: “Just a conjunction.”

“Oh!” Peter gasped, taking back

His crown. The realization

That the goat had meant no harm

Struck as: “An interjection!”

Peter the man, the wily goat,

The girl and Peter’s crown

Went together down the road

Singing: “Crown is a noun!”