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When reading this poem lend closely your eyes

A heroic tale you will no doubt surmise

Original intentions to conquer and rise

Treacherous journeys of intrigue, surprise

Behold the dangers, literal demise

Her prince each and every second decries

Disastrous instruction regardless arise

No end to this piece, puzzles disguise

The fate of the people determined if wise.

So now you must certainly, me recognize.

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"sum won" ???

Trying........

Hey Jkv, not it.

Hey PG. When stuck.....make something up...

Y'all I.D. = Illyad?

Know this is just a tall tale though!

Hey Wilson, not that but thanks for the chuckles.

the third intended PoW is cryptically contained in the line "Disastrous instruction(s) regardless arise" - work backwards knowing the answer and hunting any words that might direct

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Hey Jkv, not it.

Hey Wilson, not that but thanks for the chuckles.

the third intended PoW is cryptically contained in the line "Disastrous instruction(s) regardless arise" - work backwards knowing the answer and hunting any words that might direct

probably not but.

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Hey Wilson, I think you more specifically hit on the {riddle's answer} references any of which may have been potentially better topics. Was hoping together they would lead to the answer as a WAI. Suspected someone would discover the answer from the PoWs more quickly tho.

You did indeed nail the third play on words in the riddle (for arise I did mean go up; like you read a page from the top down, to read up might mean to read backwards?). This one was obviously the most obscure but all three where supposed to blend into the WAI portion of the riddle, as well. Nice find/solve.

Excuses below. Hope I did not unnecessarily drag this one out too much longer than needed. Most enjoyable on this end. Hope all had fun. Thanks

When reading this poem lend closely your eyes

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"this poem" referring to both the answer and the riddle itself; "lend closely your eyes" certainly needed when reading

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an epic and first WARNING: PoW ahead

A heroic tale you will no doubt surmise

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general description of an epic

Original intentions to conquer and rise

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early epics like the Iliad, Odyssey, Beowulf speak to the legends of conquest and Empire building of the times

Treacherous journeys of intrigue, surprise

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more common thematic conventions of the epic in this line and in the following

Behold the dangers, literal demise

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and maybe a reference to the knowledge and skill required of the epic poet hence the "literal (meaning of letters) demise"

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but also "literal (meaning to the letter) demise" second WARNING: PoW ahead.

Her prince each and every second decries

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and also a PoW: "Her prince" each and every second (letter) <-> epic

Disastrous instruction regardless arise

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and also a PoW: "Disastrous instruction" = recipe (for disaster), regard = re, less = minus, arise = go up <-> epic

No end to this piece, puzzles disguise

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and also a PoW: "No end to this piece" = piec; puzzles disguise = anagram <-> epic

The fate of the people determined if wise.

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finishing up the thematic conventions of the epic

So now you must certainly, me recognize.

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EPIC

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