English

When English tongue we speak,
why does break not rhyme with weak?
Won't you tell me why it's true
we say saw, but also few?
And the maker of the verse
cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard.
Cord is different from word,
cow is cow, but low is low,
shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose and dose and lose,
and think of loose ant yet of choose,
think of comb and tomb and bomb
doll and roll
and home and some
and since pay is rhymed with say
why not paid with said, I pray?
Think of blood and food and good;
mould is not pronounced like could.
Why is it done, but gone and lone?
Is there any reason known?
To sum up, it seems to me
that sounds and letters don't agree.