Oulipost #23: Inventory (with Shakespeare, yo)

Prompt: Inventory is a method of analysis and classification that consists of isolating and listing the vocabulary of a pre-existing work according to parts of speech. Choose a newspaper article or passage from a newspaper article and “inventory” the nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, articles, etc. Bonus points for creative presentation of your final lists.

Mr David Tennant as Hammy.  Stolen from NewScientist,com

Sources: http://www.newscientist.com/special/Shakespeare  (more specifically: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229654.800-shakespeare-did-radical-astronomy-inspire-hamlet.html?full=true&print=true  and i only used the first few paragraphs until i got enough to play with...)


Bernardo - Guards

middle night ghost king
it one they all

castle guards prince friend
is comes tells

arrival light heavens output
bright full astronomical medieval new

allusions narrative devices
traditionally heavenly often

bodies musings turn
of when of to as by

the Bernardo, the Guards