Notch: English Lesson #150

This is a poem about the creator of Minecraft, Notch. He is one of my personal heroes because he created my favorite video game, which also happens to be the best-selling game of all time, and I really respect him for that.

My assignment is to write a poem in the style of Alfred Lord Tennyson, so I will be using blank verse. Blank verse is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable to create a sort of heartbeat rhythm for the poem. This type of poem does not have to rhyme. Without further ado, let’s get on with the poem.

The great-est game of all time, sell-ing more
Than Grand Theft Au-to Five and Tet-ris, but
None oth-er than the great game Mine-craft could
Dream of a-chiev-ing such great fame, it must
Re-quire a rea-lly smart man to cre-ate
Such a fan-tast-ic game as this one is,
None oth-er than the great Notch could cre-ate
A game near-ly as as-tound-ing as this
But how did Notch create Mine-craft? Let's go back
To when Notch was young, and dwelt in a small
Town in-side Swed-en. Mark-us Perss-on is
His real name. At age eight, he made his first
Com-put-er game, a text ad-ven-ture game.
Notch worked at a few jobs making on-line games.
Notch had be-gun work up-on Ru-by Dung,
And it would be an ear-ly Mine-craft build.
Notch made his Mine-craft team, beg-inn-ing to
Call it Mo-jang. Notch sold Mo-jang for a
Good sum of mon-ey. Mine-craft still exi-sts
To-day, and will ex-ist for a long time.