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Original text in yellow, anagram in pink.
A palindromic poem by Mike Maguire, anagrammed into another palindromic poem. |
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Elapsed, So ran I, I laid low, Sent I was, I wondered, In eve's yawn, On, Across a pier, Reviled, Now I saw. Is it ill as a witness? I'm now old, In a rose garden made not dim, |
Name: "Sol". I ate, drawn. A tract I'd named 'We See Snow' (e.g., a mill) "I, sir? Sign or...?", wonders self. O wall! I: evil I part bed, alive - No wrong is rising; See, sew, demand it: Can war detail life? No, lad. I, a "maybe"? I? |
A letter from the young
Robert Louis Stevenson to his father, anagrammed into a |
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Letter, RESPECTED PATERNAL RELATIVE, I write to make a request of the most moderate nature. Every year I have cost you an enormous - nay, elephantine - sum of money for drugs and physician's fees, and the most expensive time of the twelve months was March. But this year the biting Oriental blasts, the howling tempests, and the general ailments of the human race have been successfully braved by yours truly. Does not this deserve remuneration? I appeal to your charity, I appeal to your generosity, I appeal to your justice, I appeal to your accounts, I appeal, in fine, to your purse. My sense of generosity forbids the receipt of more - my sense of justice forbids the receipt of less - than half-a-crown. Greeting from, Sir, YOUR MOST AFFECTIONATE AND NEEDY SON. |
You yearn, miffed scamp, uncautiously carefree: Tongues twitched, yearned with outrageous, fractious themes; Faint flame, arise! Postpone time's twelve-monthed year; O hackneyed, anxious, youth, I see your ploy; |
The original text is Canto V, Part XXVI of the long poem Lucile by Owen Meredith. It contains only 133 vowels, but has been used to create a 140-syllable sonnet (patterned after a well-known one by Christina Rossetti). |
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The day had been sullen; but, towards his decline, |
He mustn't so forget me when I part, |
Shakespeare's fifteenth sonnet. |
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When I consider every thing that grows |
The other evening I had this funny dream.
Thus I awoke. |
Updated: May 10, 2016
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