Poem Modification

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Assignment:
Select a famous poem and rewrite enough of it to spoil the original

Response:
Stopping by Woods on A Snowy Evening (Frost)

Whose moods these are I think I know.
His thoughts are in his head, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his moods fill up with snow.

My little psychiatrist must think it's queer
To stop without a pharmacy near
Between the moods and frozen lake
The darkest situation of the year.

He gives his Diagnostic and Statistical Manual a shake
To ask if there's some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The moods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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A Dream (Poe)

In visions of the dark knight
I have dreamed of war departed
But a waking dream of chivalry and right
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That noble dream - that noble dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely joust guiding.

What though that knight, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?

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