"Hucbald, Abbot of Saint-Amand, wrote a learned and insufferably boring poem, the Eclogia de Calvi, circa 877 A.D., justifying and praising baldness, in which not only the best and greatest men had apparently been so distinguished, but every word of the 146 verses begins with 'c'." (Beckwith, 1964, p. 74). Hucbald's poem was written in Latin, but the solution of similar linguistic problems, in any language, indicates some proficiency at semantic information processing. Outline roughly the subproblems involved in

(a) Writing an n word sentence in which each word starts with a given letter.

(b) Writing an m verse poem of a given meter and rhyme scheme, in which each word starts with the same given letter.

(c) Doing both (a) and (b) in such a manner that the result is "meaningful" (although, perhaps, insufferably boring).

(d) Is there a connection between Hucbald's name and the subject of his poem?