Re: Poems
Posted: December 31st, 2023, 9:29 pm
For completeness here are the solutions to the puzzles I set recently.
1a) OADATDLWMIEMNALHAOHOSVAYAEYVONEYCESTRKEH
On a day alack the day
Love whose month is ever May
I had this as by Shakespeare but Rover110 cites Bartholemew Griffin. Take your pick.
2a) IMGDTTSATTLSATSUOOOHEGOHOENHKSWEAAENADEYTNSIENLY
I must go down to the seas again
To the lonely sea and the sky
“Sea fever” by John Masefield
3a) TINFLABTTULAHSORIOOASAWEIKOKNARGEKEDYEASTE
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away
Emily Dickinson
1b) NSNMNMNNNDNDNPTODNOUOOOOOOOAOUORIFAONOROWSOMYVNNNNKPEEEMRBER
No sun
No moon
No morn
No noon
No dawn
No dusk
No proper time of day
November
Thomas Hood
2b) WZKPHCWACTHTAHDRFIAIOAAIAHEWRIIIILNLOTRTNAIOSANNLTLRTRHETRUMGGIZEIOLNOEAIDELEDNRMNLDDGER
William Zantzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger
“The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll”, an early song by Bob Dylan
3b) NWIWAYMICMPAILTFLOAROHAOAAEANIHRIFOWESUNRCDVEEFVNNRKEEEEGIDRED
Now when I was a young man I carried me pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
“The band played Waltzing Matilda” by Eric Bogle
4b) IWNWICTTTCITSOLAIHAOOHATHUFOSNEMWELEMVENENYLMETEEEDREN
I was nineteen when I came to town
They called it the summer of love
“Beeswing”, one of Richard Thompson’s most popular songs.
Cinelli
1a) OADATDLWMIEMNALHAOHOSVAYAEYVONEYCESTRKEH
On a day alack the day
Love whose month is ever May
I had this as by Shakespeare but Rover110 cites Bartholemew Griffin. Take your pick.
2a) IMGDTTSATTLSATSUOOOHEGOHOENHKSWEAAENADEYTNSIENLY
I must go down to the seas again
To the lonely sea and the sky
“Sea fever” by John Masefield
3a) TINFLABTTULAHSORIOOASAWEIKOKNARGEKEDYEASTE
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away
Emily Dickinson
1b) NSNMNMNNNDNDNPTODNOUOOOOOOOAOUORIFAONOROWSOMYVNNNNKPEEEMRBER
No sun
No moon
No morn
No noon
No dawn
No dusk
No proper time of day
November
Thomas Hood
2b) WZKPHCWACTHTAHDRFIAIOAAIAHEWRIIIILNLOTRTNAIOSANNLTLRTRHETRUMGGIZEIOLNOEAIDELEDNRMNLDDGER
William Zantzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger
“The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll”, an early song by Bob Dylan
3b) NWIWAYMICMPAILTFLOAROHAOAAEANIHRIFOWESUNRCDVEEFVNNRKEEEEGIDRED
Now when I was a young man I carried me pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
“The band played Waltzing Matilda” by Eric Bogle
4b) IWNWICTTTCITSOLAIHAOOHATHUFOSNEMWELEMVENENYLMETEEEDREN
I was nineteen when I came to town
They called it the summer of love
“Beeswing”, one of Richard Thompson’s most popular songs.
Cinelli