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
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Re: Poems
Guess I should do the same. But instead of writing them out, I'll link to them for your reading pleasure.
CLUHTAHPWDTTFFOVOESAOILHYRHAIFEMTSGAEAEEIENETHNRDARLNEEEESDYDNRS - Love and Tensor Algebra (Lem)
TOATPWTSIABPGBHWNHUEOENEEROELDESNAAAEASTUETYTNCIAFTUL - The Owl and the Pussycat (Lear)
TRGEOAOBTTDWIBHOOVNNNAOHOHTEEAEEDCEOEGDSRKRRAEN - The road goes ever on (Tolkien)
IMATFAALWSTVATLOSERRNNAHAWANREFTTAOTNOIOSDUGOVMIDDTNSNEQKELULLEEESRS - Ozymandias (Shelley)
TWAMTODASMNGFTPHAAHTANHUEOOOLASIIHYDESERATDSETDTYRSH - Watkins Ale (Traditional, and very bawdy)
and the one I thought would prove a real challenge:
WTAWHSSTDOMHPTTRHHPIIHOHRFAAEOHOAARTSOOEORTREONTIHUTGCHCTLREHHEELETDESE - Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
CLUHTAHPWDTTFFOVOESAOILHYRHAIFEMTSGAEAEEIENETHNRDARLNEEEESDYDNRS - Love and Tensor Algebra (Lem)
TOATPWTSIABPGBHWNHUEOENEEROELDESNAAAEASTUETYTNCIAFTUL - The Owl and the Pussycat (Lear)
TRGEOAOBTTDWIBHOOVNNNAOHOHTEEAEEDCEOEGDSRKRRAEN - The road goes ever on (Tolkien)
IMATFAALWSTVATLOSERRNNAHAWANREFTTAOTNOIOSDUGOVMIDDTNSNEQKELULLEEESRS - Ozymandias (Shelley)
TWAMTODASMNGFTPHAAHTANHUEOOOLASIIHYDESERATDSETDTYRSH - Watkins Ale (Traditional, and very bawdy)
and the one I thought would prove a real challenge:
WTAWHSSTDOMHPTTRHHPIIHOHRFAAEOHOAARTSOOEORTREONTIHUTGCHCTLREHHEELETDESE - Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
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