Fun with Poetry

Here's a game: Spell things out, like "Hi," while annotating the letter and using famous poetry. Start with the first letter and see which line has it, write it down. Your next line will contain the next letter/line etc. A letter equals a line, a word equals a stanza. NO backtracking! I find it makes less sense when you go backwards. Also, avoid using words that contain letters like, "X" or "Z." Also, short poems typically don't work, as they are too short to find anything. Try things like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or the Iliad. See if it makes sense and/or sounds awesome! I will use something from Lucretius's On the Nature of Things for my example

How eld withdraws each object at the end,
Entangled and enmassed, whereby at once
Lest humankind should perish.  When they feign
Like drops of rain, through the unbottomed void;
Or through thin air, must quicken their descent.

How often to thy bosom flings his streangth
O'ermastered by the eternal wound of love--
With thought untroubled, nor mid such event.

A Greek it was who first opposing dared
Raise mortal eyes that terror to withstand
Each in the end when each is overthrown.

Yet Ennius too in everlasting verse
Old Homer's ghost to him and shed salt tears
Until we seem to mark and hear at hand


Doesn't that sound purely awesome? Anyways, I said, "Hello how are you?"  Feel free to put your own creative ones in the comment box:)