Poem fractal
0.074 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.
by James Joyce
0.9318 − 0.9186i
Drawing the boundary…
0.9399 − 0.8451i
Drawing the boundary…
Each poem scrolls on its own, so the two texts stay beside each other.
by James Joyce
Rain has fallen all the day.
O come among the laden trees:
The leaves lie thick upon the way
Of memories.
Staying a little by the way
Of memories shall we depart.
Come, my beloved, where I may
Speak to your heart.
Ma petite colombelle,
Ma mignonne toute belle,
Mon petit œil, baisez-moi;
D'une bouche toute pleine
De musc, chassez-moi la peine
De mon amoureux émoi.
Quand je vous dirai: mignonne,
Approchez-vous, qu'on me donne
Neuf baisers tout à la fois
Donnez-m'en seulement trois,
Tels que Diane guerrière
Les donne à Phébus son frère,
Et l'Aurore à son vieillard;
Puis reculez votre bouche,
Et bien loin, toute farouche,
Fuyez d'un pied frétillard.
Comme un taureau par la prée
Court après son amourée,
Ainsi tout chaud de courroux,
Je courrai fol après vous.
Et, prise d'une main forte,
Vous tiendrai de telle sorte
Qu'un aigle, un cygne tremblant.
Lors, faisant de la modeste,
De me redonner le reste
Des baisers ferez semblant.
Mais en vain serez pendante
Toute à mon col, attendante
(Tenant un peu l'œil baissé)
Pardon de m'avoir laissé:
Car, en lieu de six, adonques,
J'en demanderai plus qu'onques
Tout le ciel d'étoiles n'eut,
Plus que d'arène poussée
Aux bords, quand l'eau courroussée
Contre les rives s'émeut.
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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