Let's Write A Poem

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<div align='left' style='font-size: 150%;'>\ Let's Write A Poem \ </div> <> <div align='center'> <<set $line to -1>> <<set $lastLine to -2>> /*$totCompleted $completed2 $completed3 $completed4 $completed5 $completed6 $completedC $completedB [[Debug]]*/ <table class="center" width="100%" border=0> <tr> <td>[[Couplet]]<<if $completed2 eq true>>✔️<</if>></td> <td>[[Tercet]]<<if $completed3 eq true>>✔️<</if>></td> <td>[[Triolet]]<<if $completed5 eq true>>✔️<</if>></td> </tr> <tr> <<if $totCompleted gte 3>> <td></td> <td>[[Credits]]</td> <td></td> <</if>> </tr> </table> </div> <>

<div align='center'>\ A game by Ghosts Like Us ghostslike.us | @ghostslikeus_io IFP-002 Made with Twine + Sugarcube | motoslave.net/sugarcube Poems: "Cacoethes Scribendi" by Oliver Wendell Homes, Sr. "On Spies" by Ben Jonson "Birds at Winter Nightfall" by Thomas Hardy </div>\ <<if $completedC eq false>>\ <<link 'Main Menu' 'Main Menu'>>\ <<set $completedC = true>><<set $totCompleted += 1>>\ <</link>>\ <<else>>\ [[Main Menu]]\ <</if>>\

<<set _score to 0>> <<set $line to 301>>\ \ <<include ChoiceMaker>> you are lights in state, but of base stuff, <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line1">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> Who, when you’ve burnt yourselves down to the <<include ChoiceMaker>> <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line2">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> Stink and are thrown away. <<include ChoiceMaker>> <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line3">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> <<if _score eq 0 and $completed3 eq false>>\ <<link 'Main Menu' 'Main Menu'>>\ <<set $completed3 = true>><<set $totCompleted += 1>>\ <</link>>\ <<else>>\ [[Main Menu]]\ <</if>>\

<<set _score to 0>>\ <<set $line to 201>>\ \ If all the <<include ChoiceMaker>> were men; <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line1">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> And each and every <<include ChoiceMaker>> a pen; <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line2">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> If every <<include ChoiceMaker>> on every shrub and tree <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line3">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> Turned to a sheet of <<include ChoiceMaker>>; every sea <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line4">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> Were changed to ink, and all earth's living <<include ChoiceMaker>> <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line5">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> Had nothing else to do but act as <<include ChoiceMaker>>, <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line6">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> And for <<include ChoiceMaker>>, day and night, <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line7">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> The human race should write, and write, and <<include ChoiceMaker>>, <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line8">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<if $choicesCount isnot 11>><<set _score += 0>><<else>><<set _score += 1>><</if>> Till all the <<include ChoiceMaker>> were used up, <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line9">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> And the huge inkstand was <<include ChoiceMaker>>, <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line10">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> Still would the <<include ChoiceMaker>> clustered round its brink <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line11">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> Call for more pens, more paper, and more ink<<include ChoiceMaker>> <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line12">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> <<if _score eq 0 and $completed2 eq false>>\ <<link 'Main Menu' 'Main Menu'>>\ <<set $completed2 = true>><<set $totCompleted += 1>>\ <</link>>\ <<else>>\ [[Main Menu]]\ <</if>>\

I never hear that one is dead Without the chance of Life Afresh annihilating me That mightiest Belief, Too mighty for the Daily mind That tilling it’s abyss, Had Madness, had it once or, Twice The yawning Consciousness, Beliefs are Bandaged, like the Tongue When Terror were it told In any Tone commensurate Would strike us instant Dead - I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger - Consciousness Deliberately face -

<<set _score to 0>>\ <<set $line to 501>>\ <<set $flakes to "">>\ <<set $berries to "">> \ Around the house the <<include ChoiceMaker>> fly faster, <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<set $flakes to $choices[$choicesCount]>><<replace "#line1">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> And all the <<include ChoiceMaker>> now are gone <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<set $berries to $choices[$choicesCount]>><<replace "#line2">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> From holly and <<include ChoiceMaker>> <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line3">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> Around the house. The $flakes fly!--faster <<continuelink "[✍️]">>/*<<replace "#line4">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>>*/<<set $line += 1>> Shutting <<include ChoiceMaker>> that crumb-outcaster <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line5">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> <<include ChoiceMaker>> used to see upon the lawn <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line6">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> Around the house. The $flakes fly <<include ChoiceMaker>>, <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line7">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> And all the $berries now are <<include ChoiceMaker>> <<continuelink "[✍️]">><<replace "#line8">>$choices[$choicesCount]<</replace>><<set $line += 1>><<set _score += $choicesCount>> <<if _score eq 0 and $completed5 eq false>>\ <<link 'Main Menu' 'Main Menu'>>\ <<set $completed5 = true>><<set $totCompleted += 1>>\ <</link>>\ <<else>>\ [[Main Menu]]\ <</if>>\

Late-born and woman-souled I dare not hope, The freshness of the elder lays, the might Of manly, modern passion shall alight Upon my Muse’s lips, nor may I cope (Who veiled and screened by womanhood must grope) With the world’s strong-armed warriors and recite The dangers, wounds, and triumphs of the fight; Twanging the full-stringed lyre through all its scope. But if thou ever in some lake-floored cave O’erbrowed by rocks, a wild voice wooed and heard, Answering at once from heaven and earth and wave, Lending elf-music to thy harshest word, Misprize thou not these echoes that belong To one in love with solitude and song.

<<set $totCompleted = 0>> <<set $completed2 = false>> <<set $completed3 = false>> <<set $completed4 = false>> <<set $completed5 = false>> <<set $completed6 = false>> <<set $completedC = false>> <<set $completedB = false>>

<<silently>> <<if $lastLine isnot $line>> /*<<set $choicesCount to -1>>*/ <<include "Choices">> <<set $choicesCount to random(0,$choices.length)>> <<set $lastLine = $line>> <</if>> <<set $choicesCount to $choicesCount + 1>> /*<<set $choicesCount to random(0,$choices.length)>>*/ <<if $choicesCount >= $choices.length>> <<set $choicesCount to 0>> <</if>> <<set $cyclingResult to $choices[$choicesCount]>> <</silently>> \<<linkreplace $choices[$choicesCount]>><<include "ChoiceMaker">><</linkreplace>>

<> <<if $line eq "201">> <<set $choices to ["trees in all the woods", "lights in all the streets", "fish in all the seas"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "202">> <<set $choices to ["blade of grass", "grain of sand", "lonely sigh"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "203">> <<set $choices to ["leaf", "branch", "canopy"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "204">> <<set $choices to ["foolscap", "A4", "parchment","papyrus"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "205">> <<set $choices to ["tribes", "brides", "sides", "rites"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "206">> <<set $choices to ["scribes", "bribes", "guides", "eyes"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "207">> <<set $choices to ["ten thousand ages", "generations hence", "the rest of our lives", "a week or so"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "208">> <<set $choices to ["write", "write", "write", "write", "write", "write", "write", "write", "write", "write", "write", "fight"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "209">> <<set $choices to ["pens and paper", "sun and moonlight", "leaves and forests", "metaphors", "dreams and madness"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "210">> <<set $choices to ["an empty cup", "a bleeding cut", "also used up"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "211">> <<set $choices to ["scribblers", "madmen", "writers"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "212">> <<set $choices to [".", "...", "!"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "301">> <<set $choices to ["Spies,", "Comrades,", "My fellow Americans,", "Friends,", "Soldiers,"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "302">> <<set $choices to ["snuff,", "rough,", "buff,", "gruff,", "mush,", "blush,"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "303">> <<set $choices to ["End fair enough.", "(mic drop)", "Naught but a puff.", "Call their bluff.", "Only fluff."]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "501">> <<set $choices to ["flakes", "birds", "words", "drops"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "502">> <<set $choices to ["berries", "branches", "insects"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "503">> <<set $choices to ["cotoneaster", "green plaster", "pasture"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "504">> <<set $choices to ["!--", "|", "? "]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "505">> <<set $choices to ["indoors", "away", "in dark"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "506">> <<set $choices to ["We", "You", "I", "One"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "507">> <<set $choices to ["faster", "stronger", "harder", "better"]>> <</if>> <<if $line eq "508">> <<set $choices to ["gone!", "gone!!", "gone!!!", "gone!!!!"]>> <</if>> <>

My <<link "hat">><<append "#hat">>I love it!<</append>><</link>> is blue. Normal Done: [[Main Menu]] 1 Extra Done: <<link 'Main Menu' 'Main Menu'>> <<set $totCompleted += 1>> <</link>> All Extra Done: <<link 'Main Menu' 'Main Menu'>> <<set $totCompleted += 10>> <</link>>

The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall, The fly her spleen, the little sparks their heat; The slender hairs cast shadows, though but small, And bees have stings, although they be not great; Seas have their source, and so have shallow springs; And love is love, in beggars as in kings. Where rivers smoothest run, deep are the fords; The dial stirs, yet none perceives it move; The firmest faith is in the fewest words; The turtles cannot sing, and yet they love: True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.