smoking gun that was a great idea but with alternating it all the way through, some parts didn't make sense.
I tired it on my own and found a pattern - The numbers stand for the line and the letter for whether it's from the frist verse or second.
[1A] There’s a million ways out of the city,
[2A] I don’t know one.
[1B] Indeed, a million golden arrows were pointing it out to children
[2B] All directed by their friendly son, who wanted them to be sure of their way.
[3A] His way was to pursue birds, with food in their mouths,
[4A] suitable for humans, snatching from them.
[5A] Then the birds would follow and snatch it back
[6A] and they would all be chasing each other gaily for miles
[7A] Parting at last with mutual expressions of goodwill
[3B] Before leaving them for the night,
[4B] in an unexplored patch as they rose and they spread,
[5B] black shadows began to dawn on them.
[6B] The roar of the seas took prey, this is quite different now,
[7B] and above all, we’d lost the certainty that you would live
[8A] “Save him, save him”, they cried
[9A] Looking with horror at the cruel sea far below.
[8B] When at last it had been steady again
[9B] he found himself alone in the darkness.
smoking gun that was a great idea but with alternating it all the way through, some parts didn't make sense.
I tired it on my own and found a pattern - The numbers stand for the line and the letter for whether it's from the frist verse or second.
[1A] There’s a million ways out of the city, [2A] I don’t know one. [1B] Indeed, a million golden arrows were pointing it out to children [2B] All directed by their friendly son, who wanted them to be sure of their way.
[3A] His way was to pursue birds, with food in their mouths, [4A] suitable for humans, snatching from them. [5A] Then the birds would follow and snatch it back [6A] and they would all be chasing each other gaily for miles [7A] Parting at last with mutual expressions of goodwill
[3B] Before leaving them for the night, [4B] in an unexplored patch as they rose and they spread, [5B] black shadows began to dawn on them. [6B] The roar of the seas took prey, this is quite different now, [7B] and above all, we’d lost the certainty that you would live
[8A] “Save him, save him”, they cried [9A] Looking with horror at the cruel sea far below. [8B] When at last it had been steady again [9B] he found himself alone in the darkness.