Thursday, February 24, 2011

Let's enjamb!

Take the following paragraph and put in line breaks to make it into a poem. Be sure to enjamb at least two of your lines!

The clashes and groans from the lake continued unabated, dreadful at night, and the sound of the night wind in the mountains was like one long indrawn breath. Downstairs the flood bumped and fumbled like a blind man in a strange house, but outside it hissed and trickled, like the pressure of water against your eardrums, and like the sounds you hear in the moment before you faint.

(from Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping)

16 comments:

  1. The clashes and groans from the lake continued unabated,
    dreadful at night, and the sound of the night
    wind in the mountains was like one long indrawn breath.
    Downstairs the flood bumped and
    fumbled like a blind man in a strange house,
    but outside it hissed and trickled,
    like the pressure of water
    against your eardrums, like the sounds you hear
    in the moment before you faint.

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  2. The clashes and groans of the lake continued unabated,
    dreadful at night, and the sound of the night
    wind in the mountains was like one long
    indrawn breath. Downstairs the flood bumped
    and fumbled like a blind man in a strange house,
    but outside it hissed and trickled,
    like the pressure of water
    against your eardrums, and like the sounds
    You hear in the moment before you faint.

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  3. The clashes and groans of the lake continued unabated,
    dreadful at night, and the sound of the night
    wind in the mountains was like one long
    indrawn breath. Downstairs the flood
    bumped and fumbled like a blind man in a strange house,
    but outside it hissed and trickled,
    like the water pressure of water
    against your eardrums, like the sounds you hear
    in the moment before you faint.

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  5. The clashes and groans from the lake continued
    unabated, dreadful at night,
    and the sound of the night wind in the mountains was like one long indrawn breath. Downstairs the flood bumped and fumbled like a blind man
    in a strange house,but outside it hissed and trickled,
    like the pressure of water
    against your eardrums, and like the sounds you hear
    in the moment before you faint.

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  6. The clashes and groans from the lake continued
    unabated, dreadful at night,
    and the sound of the night wind in the mountains
    was like one long indrawn breath.
    Downstairs the flood bumped
    and fumbled like a blind man in a strange house,
    but outside it hissed
    and trickled, like the pressure of water
    against your eardrums,
    and like the sounds you hear in the moment
    before you faint.

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  7. This comment has been removed by the author.

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  8. The clashes and groans
    from the lake continued unabated, dreadful
    at night, and the sound of the night wind in the mountains
    was like one long indrawn breath.
    Downstairs the flood bumped and fumbled like a blind man
    in a strange house, but outside it hissed and trickled,
    like the pressure of water against your ear-
    drums and like the sounds you hear
    in the moment before you faint.

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  9. The clashes and groans from the lake continued
    unabated, dreadful at night
    and the sound of the night wind in the mountains was like one long indrawn breath.
    Downstairs the flood bumped and fumbled
    like a blind man in a strange house
    but outside it hissed and trickled
    like the pressure of water against your ear-
    drums and like the sounds you hear
    in the moment before you faint

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  10. The clashes and groans from the lake continued, (BREAK)
    unabated, dreadful at night, and the sound of the mountains was like one long indrawn breath. (BREAK)
    Downstairs the flood bumped and fumbled, (BREAK)
    like a blind man in a strange house, but outside it hissed and trickled, (BREAK)
    like the pressure of water against your eardrums, and like the sound you hear (BREAK)
    in the moment before you faint.

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  11. Sorry but my lines were too long to fit, so I put "(BREAK)" where the lines end.

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  12. The clashes and groans from the lake continued
    unabated, dreadful at night, and the sound of the night wind
    in the mountains was like one long indrawn breath.
    Downstairs the flood bumped and fumbled like a blind man in a strange house
    but outside it hissed and trickled,
    like the pressure of water against your eardrums,
    and like the sounds you hear in the moment before you faint.

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  13. The clashes and groans from the lake continued unabated,
    dreadful at night, and the sound of the night
    wind in the mountains was like one long indrawn breath.
    Downstairs the flood bumped and fumbled
    like a blind man in a strange house,
    but outside it hissed and trickled, like the pressure of water
    against your eardrums, and like the sounds you hear
    in the moment before you faint.

    ReplyDelete
  14. The clashes and groans form the lake continued,
    unbated, dreadful at night, and the sound of the night wind
    in the mountains was like one long indrawn breath.
    Downstairs the flood bumped and fumbled like a blind man
    in a strange house,
    but outside it hissed and trickled, like the pressure of water
    against you eardrums
    and like the sounds you hear in the moment before you faint

    ReplyDelete
  15. The clashes and groans of the lake continued unabated,
    Dreadful at night, and the sound of the night
    Wind in the mountains was like one long
    Indrawn breath. Downstairs the flood
    Bumped and fumbled like a blind man in a strange house,
    But outside it hissed and trickled,
    Like the water pressure of water
    Against your eardrums, like the sounds you hear
    In the moment before you faint.

    ReplyDelete
  16. The clashes and groans from the lake continued unabated, dreadful at night,
    and the sound of the night wind in the mountains was like one long indrawn breath.
    Downstairs the flood bumped and fumbled
    like a blind man in a strange house,
    but outside it hissed and trickled,
    like the pressure of water
    against your eardrums,
    and like the sounds you hear
    in the moment before you faint.

    ReplyDelete