I think you have to see if it works for the whole thing, Jim. One feels there ought to be a programme that would do this. In David Crystal's excellent book 'Language Play' there is what he calls a Transpositional Poem, a version of Wordsworth's 'Upon Westminster Bridge' by someone called Wayne Carlson. It's on page 79 0f my Penguin Edition and begins
A city is lying asleep in the dull morning
I have emailed lucy of the Spectator to rule on this, butwhether she will email me back I don't know.
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