I wrote a beautiful, verbose poem for you all, but Riddler went and scrambled the whole thing up! Can you figure out the order of the lines and put it back together again for me? And while you're at it, can you discover what the poem was about?
Else you'll find them quite well-guarded
A drinker who is called the same
An orphan, cinematically
A pound of text with speech not florid
Swedish metal takes this name
When skip was blue, at birth he wore it
You count on them to win the game
Written rule, with one before it
And bywords of reality
Historic sacred melody
Dolly sang it, we adored it
A young pig's tag, an all-time great
Concrete responsibility
Some adorned and openhearted
A certain group has now departed
History doth these create
A father of the highest fame
Together here we rule your fate
With NASA's help, it all was started
In others magic worlds await
A hint that's not really a hint:
Focus on figuring out what the lines are referencing first. Once you do that, discovering the true order of the lines should be trivial. Also, since I said it in a comment, I'll repeat it here: Each line represents something different. Kind of.
A hint that's really a hint:
There are a couple of lines that should be possibly to figure out without knowing the pattern or the order -- I'd reckon that "A young pig's tag, an all-time great" and "With NASA's help, it all was started" are the two easiest. If you can figure those two out, you should have no problem figuring out the overarching theme and working backwards from there.
Answer
Each line references
one of the first twenty books of the Old Testament. So the solution is to sort the lines in the order the books appear in the bible
With NASA's help, it all was started
GENESIS - This is the origin or start and is also the name of a NASA spacecraft
A certain group has now departed
EXODUS - A mass departure of people
Swedish metal takes this name
LEVITICUS - This was a Swedish Christian metal band
You count on them to win the game
NUMBERS - You count with numbers
Written rule, with one before it
DEUTERONOMY - This is derived from the Greek for 'second law', so there is one rule before it
Dolly sang it, we adored it
JOSHUA - A song by Dolly Parton
Together here we rule your fate
JUDGES - Can rule your fate if you're up in court
A young pig's tag, an all-time great
RUTH - As in Babe Ruth, probably the most famous baseball player of all-time. He shares his name with the pig given the name Babe in the book "The Sheep-Pig" or "Babe, the Gallant Pig" depending on which side of the Atlantic you reside
A father of the highest fame
1 SAMUEL - Samuel Adams was a Founding Father of the United States
A drinker who is called the same
2 SAMUEL - Sam(uel) Adams is also the name of a popular American beer
Some adorned and openhearted
1 KINGS - The kings in a pack of cards can be adorned (of diamonds) or openhearted (of hearts)
Else you'll find them quite well-guarded
2 KINGS - well guarded in a game of chess
History doth these create
1 CHRONICLES - Chronicles of history
In others magic worlds await
2 CHRONICLES - Narnia is the magic land in the Chronicles of Narnia books
A pound of text with speech not florid
EZRA - Ezra Pound was a poet, who favoured short, simple sentences over a more elaborate style
When skip was blue, at birth he wore it
NEHEMIAH - This references Skip James, a blues musician, born Nehemiah Curtis James
An orphan, cinematically
ESTHER - The name of the orphan adopted in the film Orphan
Concrete responsibility
JOB - A responsibility
Historic sacred melody
PSALMS - A psalm is a sacred song
And bywords of reality
PROVERBS - Expressions that summarize, or provide a byword for reality
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