# Google help, please - Poetry Division

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-help-please-poetry-division/152819>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 5, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-help-please-poetry-division/152819 "2003-02-05T00:21:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-help-please-poetry-division/152819/1 "2003-02-05T00:21:06Z")

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Ok, this is not weighty enough for GQ, and it’s kind of a dumb question, too.

I wrote this poem, a sonnet to be precise. The last two lines popped into my mind pretty much fully formed. As I was typing them, they seemed very familiar. Seems to me there are two alternatives:  
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[li]Deja vu[/li][li]I read them a long time ago and some long lost memory cells came back to life just then[/li][/ul]  
I went to Google and did a search on the key words in the last line (four of them) and got about a zillion hits. I only waded through the first couple of pages, because nothing was close. Then I did a search on the exact phrase of the last line (which seems especially familiar) with and without punctuation . It returned no matches. I don’t want to claim it as original if I dredged it up out of my memory banks. Does anyone have any better ideas than what I did for a search on a line in a poem?

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**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-help-please-poetry-division/152819/2 "2003-02-05T01:48:57Z")

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Well, you could try posting it here and see if anybody can place it. Pretty literate bunch on the dopeboard.

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**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-help-please-poetry-division/152819/3 "2003-02-05T02:05:53Z")

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Shameless hijack:

Every post I’ve seen on this here board refers to the board as “the SDMB” and I think this is the first time I’ve seen the term “dopeboard”. Not that it matters, but has that been used elsewhere?

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-help-please-poetry-division/152819/4 "2003-02-05T04:50:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Inky- \*  
> \*\*Well, you could try posting it here and see if anybody can place it. Pretty literate bunch on the dopeboard. \*\*

That’s what I would be afraid of. It’s fairly sophmoric. First poem I’ve written in probably 20 years. Also, I don’t really want to get into shared copyright issues if I can avoid it. But, maybe I will in the morning. Thanks.