Poem fractal

The Good Little Girl

by A. A. Milne

18 January 1882 to 31 January 1956 (~74)

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In their words

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

Offering reassurance about hidden courage and self-worth · Prose, Winnie-the-Pooh

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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. Richard · 1.1982 − 0.1995i · 0.047 away · Compare side by side
  2. Albius Tibullus · 1.2008 − 0.2114i · 0.060 away · Compare side by side
  3. Rudyard Kipling · 1.1312 − 0.1858i · 0.065 away · Compare side by side
  4. Francesco Petrarca · 1.1717 − 0.2473i · 0.095 away · Compare side by side
  5. Geoffrey Chaucer · 1.0780 − 0.1800i · 0.113 away · Compare side by side
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