Sound and Sense, 2-18

Time for more instances of the homophone: a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.

1. aisle (noun): a passage between sections of seats; a passage where people walk through a store, market, etc.

2. I’ll (contraction of I will)

3. isle (noun): island

I guess I’ll just confess it: I

First saw her walking down the aisle,

And I, a wedding guest, to try

To woo here there? Not subtle style!

But woo I did—so shamelessly.

But I’d misjudged—a country mile!

So quickly they disposed of me—

Marooned me on this desert isle.

I do not have much company—

A bottle floats up now and then—

A palm, of course, the only tree.

All this for just a social sin!?