I was reminded of "The Story of Mel" (https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html), which was originally writt

I was reminded of "The Story of Mel" (https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html), which was originally written as prose but got mutated through Usenet linebreaks into something that wound up looking like free verse, and is now remembered as such.