Warring Words

The Sultan of Thesaurus and the King of Syllabus
Got into an argument and soon began to fuss
“How dare you disagree with me!” the angry Sultan said
“I’ll send my Adverb army in to smite you on the head!”

“Do your worst!” the angry King retorted with a frown
“When I am through with you, I’ll be the only proper noun”
The Sultan’s army then attacked and soon the war was on
The Adverbs fought the King’s Pronouns until the early dawn

The Predicates assembled to see just what they might do
To stop the awful fighting going on between the two
Rushing to find the answer, it wouldn’t be so simple
They would have to search and find a dangling participle

The Adjectives now joined the fight and sided with the King
But the Gerunds and Infinitives were quite another thing
They sided with the Sultan and their clause was superlative
Comparatively speaking they had nothing more to give

The mighty Prepositions came to lend a helping hand
But greatly feared Conjunctions drove them back into their land
The period of war raged on as back and forth it went
One would dash the other ‘til their armies were all spent

The King then asked the Sultan if he willingly would render
An interjection to the war with conditional surrender
“Only if you’ll give up first!” the weary Sultan shouted
“And call your Pronoun army off before they all are routed”

Shaking hands the enemies were soon best friends again
“You were quite a worthy foe” the King said with a grin
“As were you” the Sultan said “So now I guess I’ll see ya”
“I’m taking a vacation down in Onomatopoeia”