For fun.
(Clothes optional) tips for writing better poetry
http://mentalfloss.com/article/62431/16-famous-authors-tips-writing-better-poetry
At the bottom of that page was another article that might be of interest. I found it on another webpage also so here is the URL to that:
Can You Tell an Author’s Identity By Looking at Punctuation Alone? A Study Just Found Out.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/73897/what-classic-literature-looks-without-words
What Classic Literature Looks Like Without the Words
http://mentalfloss.com/article/73897/what-classic-literature-looks-without-words
Looked like fun. I took my text copy of TWL and removed all blank lines and section titles and numbered the lines thus changing my
76 'You! hypocrite lecteur!--mon semblable,--mon frere!'
PART II - A Game of Chess
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77 The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
to (I didn't bother to change my double hypens to m-dahes.)
76 'You! hypocrite lecteur!--mon semblable,--mon frere!'
77 The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
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