Writing practice: prose into blank verse
“it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a noble of that country”: The banner’s stitch forespoke the shield’s design
“I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe”: The thorny underbrush of Carpath’s east, enshrouds the scurried realm of acts unseen
[the 2nd was not great, but i’m out of time. bad day]