Mishearing Poems A selection of things is chosen. They may be anything: a collection of books, restaurants, movies, vegetables... anything! The name of each thing in the selection is transformed through a process of "mishearing" their names or titles as sentences. Each of these are paraphrased and expanded through a tautogram. The number of words is the number of lines. Each letter is a word in the line. The poem must reflect the sentence subject matter and/or the base thing in some way. One may work backwards to discover the base thing in question. See "All's Meal That Ends Meal" in the writing section for an example!