Of course WE know it's not patchwork poetry at all. It is a Cento, a form going back to classical times. Sam Gwynn produced the finest Cento in English but he's too much of a Southern Gentleman to chop a bit off and send it in. I wrote one somewhere and I'm no sort of a gentleman at all. I'll look it up.
No. 2763: patchwork poetry
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