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yes thanks, Hartley, I just felt myself fading away after 13,ooo words of religious poetry, infact I'd say it's usually one of my strong points, coming up with snappy lines, I just got lazy. Thanks everyone!
I think you'd be missing the point of the poem if you didn't start each line with those letters. As Hartley's excellent suggestion shows, it's not hugely difficult.
Thanks, Liz, yes I think that's the only way to go, I just wasn't sure if I had to stick to the letter in this instance:) Sorry my question was a bit misleading.
well what I'm trying to wriggle out of is having to start each line with a word that incorporates that particular letter, while keeping it concise and close to the meaning. David I think is the name of the writers son, so it has to be there, somewhere
So, Your goals is the title of the poem and then you just translate the verse into English and will probably find that the first letter of the first word of each poem leads to gobbledegook, i.e. WRIPG... the first line possibly being "Wherever you go....Second line "Remember me"... DAVID seems a bit of a red herring here.
I still don't get it....you say "tus metas" is the title, well translate this into English. What does DAVID have to do with it? or is he an actual person in the poem in another verse for example?
It depends entirely on what you, or your client, consider to be important. I would say DAVID is important, it's the premise of the poem, but you have your work cut out if you want the rest to have relatively similar semantics. I would have a discussion with the client about how much freedom you have to depart from the meanings of each line.
You have posted the word "DAVID" in the header which does not appear in the text. Please clarify. What do you need help with?
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