Cento line attribution in a borrowed poem

Cento line attribution keeps each borrowed line with its source. A cento is a poem made entirely from other poets’ lines. The small arrangement below retains the words and repairs a misplaced credit.

Iris, Owen, their room and the afternoon are invented. The quoted lines and their author credits are real, checked against the named source editions. This is an original fictional setting around a newly chosen arrangement.

The blue sheet

Iris had saved the blue sheet from a folder that no longer closed. One corner carried a pale rectangle where a sticker had been. She put that corner at the top and laid her paper strips below it. Owen asked whether the rectangle was going to become part of the design. She said she was still deciding.

He had come to collect a book she had finished. She had left it on the chair nearest the door, with a bookmark still inside. When he picked it up, she asked him to leave the bookmark because she wanted to keep it. He opened the book at the marked page and found an old shopping list.

It was her list, although she had forgotten making it. There were only three things written on it, and one had been crossed out so thoroughly that she could not read it. Owen handed it back. She put it beneath the blue sheet, where she would have to find it again before putting her work away.

The table was otherwise ready. A pencil lay beside the strips, and a mug stood on the windowsill behind her chair. Iris had copied the lines earlier and kept their source notes on another page. The loose name labels were meant to sit beside the finished arrangement. She had not attached any of them yet.

Owen set the book on his knees and asked what she was making. Iris said she wanted a small page she could keep inside her cupboard door. It was somewhere she would see it while choosing a coat. She liked the dark blue backing, even with its old sticker mark, and wanted to use it before finding another purpose for it.

Two borrowed lines

The opening lines are “I wandered lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, from “[I wandered lonely as a Cloud],” and “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson, from “Hope is the thing with feathers (254).” Both selected source editions identify their poems as public domain.

Iris laid the strips one above the other. The upper one sat a little too close to the pale rectangle, so she moved both downward. Owen watched from his chair. He said the blue sheet looked larger now that something was on it. She asked whether he meant too large, and he said he had only meant that he had noticed its edges.

She had left plenty of blue around the paper. Part of her wanted to trim it immediately. Another part remembered finding it in the folder and being pleased that there was a whole sheet worth keeping. She put the scissors back in their drawer without taking them out of their sleeve. The edges could remain for this afternoon.

Owen opened his book while she moved the strips. He had reached a page containing a folded receipt that belonged to him. Iris asked whether that was his bookmark. He said it might as well be now. He put it between two different pages and closed the book again, having read no more than the line at the top.

Iris reached across the table for her source notes. Her sleeve caught the edge of a loose label. It slid beneath the lower strip, while the other label remained beside her pencil. She moved the displaced piece out of her way and returned to the notes. Owen looked at the arrangement after her hand had left it.

The loose credit

“Is that where you wanted the name?” he asked. Iris looked down. She had been thinking about the shape of the blue space and had stopped attending to the little labels. She picked up the one nearest the bottom edge, then put it back without moving the long strip above it. She wanted to keep track of what had changed.

In the mistaken layout, Emily Dickinson’s label sits beside the Wordsworth line. Iris restores William Wordsworth to that line and Emily Dickinson to the other, keeping both quotations intact. Neither poet wrote this new arrangement.

Iris drew a small sketch of the mistaken layout in the margin of her notes. Owen asked why she wanted to keep the mistake. She said she would otherwise remember only that she had moved something. The little drawing showed which piece had travelled. She left the sketch untidy because it was for her own use.

She put the name labels beside their respective strips and moved her pencil away from them. This left a narrow empty space on the right. Owen asked whether another label belonged there. Iris said no. It could remain blue. She did not want the page to acquire another piece simply because she had found somewhere to put one.

Her mug had gone cold on the sill. She picked it up and carried it to the kitchen. Owen stayed at the table, keeping his hands on the book. When she returned with a fresh drink, he had turned the book over and was looking at the small crease on its back cover. He asked whether it had been there when he lent it to her.

Iris said she thought it had. She did not remember dropping it or folding the cover. Owen said he had not remembered the crease either, then put the book back on his knees. They left the question there. Iris set her mug farther from the blue sheet than the old one had been and sat down.

The arrangement

I wandered lonely as a Cloud
Hope is the thing with feathers

Line one: William Wordsworth, “[I wandered lonely as a Cloud].” Line two: Emily Dickinson, “Hope is the thing with feathers (254).” These remain lines from separate source poems.

Iris looked at the page from the doorway. From there she could see the strips against the blue, although she could not read the smaller writing. She came back to the table without deciding where it would hang. The cupboard was still her intended place. She wanted to look at it once before taking it into that darker corner.

Owen stood and offered her his chair so she could see the page from his side. She moved around the table. It was the position from which he had noticed the loose label, and she could see how far it had slipped from her pencil. She asked him to bring her source-note page over rather than turning the backing around again.

He carried the notes across and waited while she read them. Then she set them on the empty chair. Iris wanted the note page kept with the paper even after she found somewhere for the finished piece. The small sketch of the wrong layout could stay on that page, away from the arrangement she meant to keep.

She considered writing her own name on the front. Owen asked whether she wanted it near the bottom. Iris tried a blank piece of paper there and found that it occupied the blue space she had just decided to leave empty. She put it aside. She could keep a separate note about the afternoon without adding another front label.

The pale rectangle at the top was still visible. Owen said it looked a little like a window. Iris said she had been trying not to give it a job. She turned the backing slightly toward the light and looked at the old adhesive mark. It could remain the place where a sticker had once been.

Keeping the notes

Outside, somebody was moving bins along the pavement. Owen glanced toward the window, then at the time on his telephone. He still had time to walk home before his next arrangement. Iris asked whether he wanted to take the remaining biscuits from her cupboard. He said he had brought a bag, which made her laugh because he had brought it for the book.

She found a small packet for him and set it beside the book. He asked whether she wanted him to carry the blue sheet into the other room before he left. Iris said she could take it later. For now she wanted it lying flat, with the notes where she could see them and the loose pieces within reach.

They checked the chair for her shopping list. She had forgotten putting it beneath the backing, and Owen had forgotten watching her do it. Iris lifted the blue sheet at one edge. The list was still there. She read the two uncrossed entries, decided she no longer needed either and folded the paper into her pocket.

The source notes went into the old folder. That folder still would not close properly, but it could hold the page while lying flat. Iris put a pencil mark on its tab so she could recognise it among the other folders. Owen asked whether the blue backing would fit inside too. She laid it over the folder and found that its corner extended beyond the cover.

She left the backing out. There was no reason to bend it merely to put everything in the same place. The folder could stay beside it on the table until she chose another arrangement. Owen picked up his book and the packet, then looked around for the receipt he had used as a bookmark. It was still between the pages he had chosen.

At the cupboard

After he had gone, Iris carried the blue sheet into the room with the cupboard. She held it against the inside of the door, below the hook where she kept an empty cloth bag. The old sticker mark was less visible there. She lowered the sheet and looked at the space once more before taking it back to the table.

She had not chosen how to attach it. The paper could wait while she considered that separately. She put it down beside the folder and moved her fresh mug back to the windowsill. Her coat was still on its hook. She took the shopping list out of the pocket before she forgot it again.

The folded list went into a small pile of paper she no longer wanted. Iris kept the blank label beside the blue sheet. She might use it later for something else, and there was enough space in the folder to hold it. She left the note page open at the sketch she had drawn, with the finished arrangement lying nearby.

Each borrowed line keeps its own source credit.

Separate vase accounts

The menolana vase account, SKU 13602618272, has eight original images of one cream-white fluted vase. Books, bedding, a bag and furniture are staging. The description states one vase; repeated views do not multiply the supplied count. Material, dimensions and water-holding ability are not independently verified here.

The Zawadee B2_00A073 account has two images of a banded cylinder vase. Glass and ten-inch title wording conflicts with ceramic and twelve-inch specification wording; those claims remain unadopted. Other containers, utensils, plants and furniture in the staged image are not established as supplied. Neither offer supplies the fictional compiler’s work.

Other poetry decisions

The same-words line-break guide rearranges the printed groups of an original sentence. This small cento borrows complete source lines and retains their separate credits.

The short-poem refrain guide repeats an original sentence beside changing stanzas. The borrowed lines here come from different source poems; no new refrain is added.

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