Poem fractal

Aurora

by William Alexander

c. 1567 to 12 February 1640 (~73)

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In their words

“You that are born to rule Nations may be the beginner of Nations, enlarging this Monarchy without blood and making a Conquest without wronging of others.”

On peaceful expansion through colonisation · Dedication, An Encouragement to Colonies

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Drawing the boundary…

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A fractal is a shape that keeps its pattern when you look closer. Coastlines, trees, shells, and weather do this. A poem can be drawn the same way.

The poem’s constant is read from the build of its lines: their length, the size of the stanzas, and the share of vowels. Poems whose constants lie closer together are built more alike. The same poem always draws the same picture. Change the length of a line, the stanza, or the vowel share, and both the number and the picture move.

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.

Poems nearby in the constant

A smaller distance means the lines are built more alike.

  1. Dylan Thomas · −0.4811 + 0.1115i · 0.016 away · Compare side by side
  2. Alfred Douglas · −0.5111 + 0.1035i · 0.018 away · Compare side by side
  3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge · −0.5136 + 0.1119i · 0.022 away · Compare side by side
  4. W. H. Davies · −0.4734 + 0.1143i · 0.024 away · Compare side by side
  5. Dylan Thomas · −0.4785 + 0.1217i · 0.025 away · Compare side by side
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