Poem fractal

Pocahontas

by William Makepeace Thackeray

18 July 1811 to 24 December 1863 (~52)

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In their words

“A good laugh is sunshine in a house.”

Humour is presented as a source of warmth and renewal in domestic life. · Commonly attributed remark

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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. Edmund Waller · −0.6313 − 0.4613i · 0.005 away · Compare side by side
  2. Bliss Carman · −0.6272 − 0.4723i · 0.012 away · Compare side by side
  3. Thomas Hood · −0.6427 − 0.4626i · 0.017 away · Compare side by side
  4. John Townsend Trowbridge · −0.6143 − 0.4461i · 0.018 away · Compare side by side
  5. Samuel Rogers · −0.6102 − 0.4422i · 0.024 away · Compare side by side
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