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myOtaku.com: DemonMessiah

Saturday, November 13, 2004

the answer is......
Frances Sargent Osgood...to find it, simply take the first letter of the first line and the second letter of the second line and so on until you get to the end. like i said yesterday, i can't imagine how difficult that must have been to write and make flow and still sound as good as it does. i'll give you guys the title to it this time too.

"A Valentine"

1......For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,
2......Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda,
3......Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies
4......Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.
5......Search narrowly the lines!- they hold a treasure
6......Divine- a talisman- an amulet
7......That must be worn at heart. Search well the measure-
8......The words- the syllables! Do not forget
9......The trivialest point, or you may lose your labor
10.....And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
11.....Which one might not undo without a sabre,
12.....If one could merely comprehend the plot.
13.....Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering
14.....Eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus
15.....Three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing
16.....Of poets, by poets- as the name is a poet's, too,
17.....Its letters, although naturally lying
18.....Like the knight Pinto- Mendez Ferdinando-
19.....Still form a synonym for Truth- Cease trying!
20.....You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do.

-Edgar Allan Poe

congratulations to darkeangel. he's the first to get the answer....he misspelled it....there's only one 'a' in her middle name....at least not if you follow the method to get her name in this poem. i do seem to remember reading somewhere that poe actually misspelled her name in his poem though and darke has it spelled the right way. i couldn't find who frances was for sure. his wife (and cousin) was virginia clemm. he wrote annabel lee for her...there are theories that poe had an adulterous relationship with frances...at least three of his poems are thought to be written for her.

i'd also like to congratulate KittieOfDoom...she's the first to get the name right as spelled out in the poem.

*hands big cookies to darkeangel and KittieOfDoom* hope you guys enjoy them...*gives out smaller cookies to the rest of you* couldn't leave them out, could i?
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