Poem fractal
0.080 apart. A smaller distance means the lines are built more alike.
This number is read from the build of the lines. The bright edge is that number, carried outward until the pattern repeats.
0.8664 − 0.3892i
Drawing the boundary…
0.8162 − 0.3268i
Drawing the boundary…
Each poem scrolls on its own, so the two texts stay beside each other.
You stole my love; fie upon you, fie!
Knew you but what a pain it is to prove,
You for your love would die!
And henceforth, never longer
Be such a crafty wronger;
But when deceit takes such a fall,
Then farewell, sly device and all.
La grande amour que vous m'aviez donnée
Le vent des jours a rompu ses rayons -
Où fut la flamme, où fut la destinée
Où nous étions, où par la main serrée
Nous nous tenions
Notre soleil, dont l'ardeur fut pensée
L'orbe pour nous de l'être sans second
Le second ciel d'une âme divisée
Le double exil où le double se fond
Son lieu pour vous apparaît cendre et crainte,
Vos yeux vers lui ne l'ont pas reconnu
L'astre enchanté qui portait hors d'atteinte
L'extrême instant de notre seule étreinte
Vers l'inconnu.
Mais le futur dont vous attendez vivre
Est moins présent que le bien disparu.
Toute vendange à la fin qu'il vous livre
Vous la boirez sans pouvoir être qu'ivre
Du vin perdu.
J'ai retrouvé le céleste et sauvage
Le paradis où l'angoisse est désir.
Le haut passé qui grandit d'âge en âge
Il est mon corps et sera mon partage
Après mourir.
Quand dans un corps ma délice oubliée
Où fut ton nom, prendra forme de cœur
Je revivrai notre grande journée,
Et cette amour que je t'avais donnée
Pour la douleur.
A fractal is a shape that keeps its pattern when you look closer. Coastlines, trees, shells, and weather do this. The large form and the small form are the same kind of thing. A poem can be drawn that way. The shape of the whole comes from the shape of the lines.
Primunia is the name for the source of that order: the pattern under the pattern, already there in a tree, a shell, and a verse.
The number under the picture is the poem constant. It is read from the build of the lines: their length, how uneven they are, the size of the stanzas, the share of vowels, and the way the lines end. A new word moves the number when it changes that build. The same poem always gives the same number.
Drawn on its own, that number sits in a quiet part of the plane, and most poems would look like the same soft disk. So the number is carried outward along its own direction until it meets the edge of the Mandelbrot set, where the shape turns sharp. The picture is the Julia set of that meeting place.
Each point on the canvas is folded again and again by one small rule. Points that stay near the rule form the dark interior. Points that rush away become the coloured bands. The hue comes from the poem constant, and the brightest bands turn toward gold. Change the length of a line, the stanza, or the vowel share, and both the number and the picture move.
Branching draws the poem as a tree. Each turn follows a line, and every smaller branch repeats that pattern. A longer line reaches farther. The letters at the start of a line bend the next turn. A higher share of vowels opens the branches wider.
The trunk takes its colour from the poem constant and warms toward gold at the tips. When the poem has more than one stanza, gold forks leave the trunk. Each fork is a stanza beyond the first, up to three. The tree divides where the poem divides. One stanza remains a single trunk.
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