Why is it so hard even for native speakers to spell the verb "pedal"? I mean it's spelled exactly like the noun, which most people seem to be able to spell properly.
It's a genuine question, I see this all the time, maybe most of the time actually. It's strange because typically people tend to over-generalise, not the other way around.
They can also come from autocorrect guessing, though probably not this case.
(FWIW Reading poetry doesn't work for me and I have long assumed it is only a pleasure for people who hear the sound while reading).
How about Oxford poetry? Or Maidenhead?
I can listen to poetry and musical lyrics, and there cadence and phonemic clues help with memory and recognition and can even be playful or fun (as intended!). I've never grokked how one could read that way though clearly many, and perhaps most, people do!
Often I found more difficult to understand English written by native speakers than by others because of that.