My car is limping, Dolores Haze,
And the last long lap is the hardest,
And I shall be dumped where the weed decays,
And the rest is rust and stardust.
Directly before the closing line we must twist ‘decays’ to rhyme ‘Haze’. Our lip turns up and a snarl is begun. The ignition pressed, we rev the two ‘r’ sounds in ‘rest’ and ‘rust’ with rising gusto. We enter the third, final ‘r’ we will make violence of it, then find that ‘star’ permits no revving whatever. Our snarl collapses and then immediately, with no time to regather ourselves, we are forced to produce, and can only do so weakly, the closing syllable: ‘dust’.
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