AVAST BOSUN CHASE DAMN’D WHALE FIEND
         Ahab, in Herman Mellvile’s Moby Dick

TRUTH THESE YOUNG LORDS HOARD DOUGH 
         Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

ALACK HEART BEATS THRUM UNDER FLOOR
         Edgar Allan Poe “The Telltale Heart”

RAVEN TALKS NIGHT DREAD DEATH LOOMS.
Edgar Allan Poe “The Raven”

NYMPH MOTEL TRAVEL FANCY PROSE STYLE
Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

ELVES DWARF FRODO MELTS GREAT JEWEL
         J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Jordi Alonso has a Ph.D in Victorian Literature from the University of Missouri. He is currently studying Classics at Columbia University. He is the author of Honeyvoiced and The Lovers’ Phrasebook, and has been published in Kenyon Review Online and Levure Littéraire, among others. Follow him on Twitter @nymphscholar.