Zebraic Englyn - alternate (more technically correct) version

The obscure Englyn Lledfbroest is a four-line stanza, four of which I have here arranged into a poem.  It should be done in Welsh, but I did it in English anyway.  In the primary version, I grouped each diphthong ending together for a single stanza, which also breaks the rules, but MORE.


Zoos may feed their zebras hei
But such zebras tend to sae.
They want food a bit less chwy;
It's easier to destroe.

"Why not carrots?" they sei.
"Some beans would be nice to trae.
To sink into something gwy
Is what my teeth would enjoe."

Zebras are always okei
Even when weather is drae.
They'll digest plantlife scrwy
That would others' stomachs cloe.

But at the end of the dei
The absence of cakes or pae
Is why zebras' drear ennwy
Makes them easy to annoe.

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