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but moments bay warming disappear setback the to landmark
-- Glenn R. Frantz
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Well, I wanted to come up with some sort of regular repetition scheme. I had the notion of writing a set of "half-lines" and then assembling them in such a way that each half-line gets used twice: once as the first half of a line, once as the second half. Also, there should be groups of half-lines that share the same word pattern, such as "ballooned net the to jitters", and "began denial the to skepticism".
Following my instinct to overcomplicate things, I first devised an elaborate arrangement that scattered the repetitions in an irregular way across all nine lines. A quick test revealed that the patterns were really not very perceptible! So I backed off to this simple scheme for each stanza:
AB
BC
CA
I just repeated this for each stanza, with different words filled into each of the A/B/C patterns. And the result is confusing enough! But it has a nice looping quality to it. Hmm, maybe a more complex pattern would work better if I used normal-syntax phrases for the parts...
Thanks for reading!
-- Glenn
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