Poem fractal

Telling the Bees

by Frederic William Moorman

8 September 1872 to 8 September 1919 (~47)

Browse poets 678
In their words

“A literature which leaves large areas of the national activity and aspiration unexpressed is in danger of becoming narrow, esoteric, unhealthy.”

Art that ignores labouring life impoverishes the national spirit · Preface, Songs of the Ridings

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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. Leigh Hunt · 0.5637 + 0.0016i · 0.018 away · Compare side by side
  2. D. H. Lawrence · 0.5869 + 0.0285i · 0.050 away · Compare side by side
  3. Nora Hopper Chesson · 0.5452 − 0.0591i · 0.059 away · Compare side by side
  4. Nora Hopper Chesson · 0.4775 + 0.0072i · 0.069 away · Compare side by side
  5. Alphonse de Lamartine · 0.5248 + 0.0700i · 0.073 away · Compare side by side
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