Poetic Paradise

the Straight Cut-Up form:

Is thy lamplight sitting?

Just is God that night…

Parting from Heaven “Nevermore”

“Be I shadow loneliness,” that The Raven said.

“By still and door.”

Just is God that night…

Parting from Heaven “Nevermore”

It said, upstartingly, “Get out, thou flitting!

All unbroken!

Quit of form.

Lifted! - nevermore…”

“Leave fiend! Whom bust my name!”

“Out from tempest-name, Raven!”

“Of sainted word that token him,

By still and door.”

Take the bird, take us, by chamber heart.

Heart of I, prophet,

Hath the sign above sitting on a bust?

A radiant stream above the floor?

Shall that soul seemingly by that shore

Left clasped above in angel’s dreaming.

Still…the demons hath bird beak, evil they are,

prophet Lenore.

Quoth angels whom shadows are floating

A distant plume that rarely bends.

Raven black eyes on the door!

Quoth in sorrow, “That lying soul shrieked,

A soul from my maiden in thy floor.”

And laden “Nevermore”

At the end.

the Fold-In Method form:

Shall I compare thee to a midnight dreary

While I pondered a summer’s day?

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten love,

Thou art more darling and nothing more.

And summer’s lease hath evermore

By chance or nature’s changing never - nevermore.

94. Cut-Up Method (Technique Poem) | The straight cut-up involves cutting words of a complex text and randomly rearranging them into a new text; the fold-in method involves taking two linear texts with the same spacing and folding them over and next to each other so that the first half one line folds in to the second half of the corresponding line to create a new line.