I once heard a recording of someone reading Tennyson's Ulysses as verse (which, technically, it is; it's in iambic pentameter, more or less, it just doesn't rhyme) instead of prose. I was impressed by how simple it really was to take one of the most evocative poems in the English language (IMO, of course, YMMV) and make it sound as ludicrous as a playground chant. (First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Telemachus in the baby carriage.)