Thank you, Graham. But Gregory's list demonstrates why my Shakespeare rewrite might not actually be all that awe inspiring. I tied myself in knots of frustration with some other poets, but Shakespeare lends himself nicely to this exercise. The sonnets get a bit tricky when you have to redo the rhymes, but some of his best blank verse practically rewrites itself:
To be or not to be, that’s what I ask.
Should I think it’s more right to feel the pain
As mad fate strikes me with its slings and darts,
Or take up arms and fight back at these woes?
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