@tj
ermmm..... "all the propositions in alphabetical order"??

I'm guessing PREPositions, and for that, there's a different poem, by Morris Bishop:

Lately I lost a preposition
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair.
Angrily I cried, "Perditition!
Up from out of in under there!"

Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor. And yet I wonder, “What should he come Out from out of in under for?”