Goethe sentence

When I was 9 I fought a lot

Got punishments in class

My teacher made me memorize 

Some poetry en masse

For every sentence one more verse

And say it all aloud

In front of everybody,

it was worse then than it sounds

All in german, I was foreign

Struggled with the words sometimes

And on my poem numbered ten

I had to learn some Goethe rhymes

I still remember some of it,

The earl king in the wind

The first one I still know by heart

My testament of sins

And had I not 

Been punished with a poem for a punch

I guess I‘d never learn to rhyme,

But that is just a hunch

Either way, so filled with shame

I learned I must perform

For any action, right or wrong

A narcissist was born