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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

A Cento is a poem entirely composed of existing lines from other poems. The end product can produce a surreal poetry of its own. Two couplets I remember from one I read many years ago go -

Lord Ullin reached that fatal shore
A highly respectable Chancellor

and

It was roses, roses all the way
Nor any drop to drink.

Each poster posts a line which in some way matches the previous one - in rhyme, rhythm or (broadly) sense.

I went into a hazel wood because a fire was in my head

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Posted by QLib (# 43) on :

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

Beside a lake, amid the trees

Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on :

and miles to go before I sleep

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Posted by QLib (# 43) on :

But a waking dream of life and light

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

Busy old fool, unruly sun

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Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born

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Posted by QLib (# 43) on :

The ways deep the weather sharp

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

Water like a stone

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :

It would be nice to link your quotes to the poems.

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :

That was from In the bleak midwinter by Christina Rossetti

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

So that's -

I went into a hazel wood because a fire was in my head
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be
Beside a lake, amid the trees
And miles to go before I sleep
But a waking dream of life and light
Busy old fool, unruly sun
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born
The ways deep and the weather sharp
Water like a stone.

I've seen worse in anthologies.

Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :

New Cento

This is not Love, perhaps

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

Let us go then, you and I

Posted by QLib (# 43) on :

And tear our pleasures with rough strife

Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :

Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;

Posted by Horseman Bree (# 5290) on :

Firenze:

quote:
A Cento is a poem entirely composed of existing lines from other poems. The end product can produce a surreal poetry of its own. Two couplets I remember from one I read many years ago go -

I thought that Go-Go was a form of visual entertainment for the thigh-booted miniskirt crowd, a sort of one-sided precursor of disco.

"Go Go Round"

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :

Glares mildly at the horseman.

New Cento

This is not Love, perhaps
Let us go then, you and I
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

From what I've tasted of desire

Posted by QLib (# 43) on :

My love is like to ice, and I to fire

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!¹

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Posted by Doublethink (# 1984) on :

please master can I kiss your ankles and soul

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