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Fibs - Fibonacci-based Poetry

Gregory K. writes "April is National Poetry Month (and, it turns out, Math Awareness Month), and on my blog, I decided to get people writing poetry based on the Fibonacci sequence. The poems are six lines, 20 syllables long with the syllable pattern 1/1/2/3/5/8, though they can go longer, obviously. I've been calling 'em Fibs, and people have been writing them on pop culture, politics, math, and more."

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  1. Re:nice! by archeopterix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah.
    Right.
    Breaking
    A sentence
    Into syllables
    Does not a poem make - how pointless

  2. Re:nice! by illuminatedwax · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If
    you
    restrict
    your options,
    you may be surprised.
    You might become more creative.

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  3. Re:no digg by Jaruzel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Stoppit! This isn't Digg!!!!!!

    But yeah, personal blog self-promotion - uber lame.

    -Jar

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  4. Palindrome version by Chapter80 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Palindrome version. (It's early, best I could do...)


    God,
    all!
    It's fib,
    version A.
    Edit idea...
    No! Is rev B, if still a dog.

  5. Re:Tool - Lateralus by Alioth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Forget your missing five tones.

    There is only one rule about music, and it's a subjective rule. That rule is that the music must sound good.

    If people find Tool sounds good, then it is good (to them at least) regardless of whether music snobs are whining that it is missing five tones. Part of music is not necessarily being too much. For example, many people love blues yet much of it only uses three chords and a pentatonic scale. It doesn't make it anything less - to those who love that kind of music, it obeys the only rule - it sounds good - regardless of what classically educated music snobs think.

  6. Re:Tool- Lateralus already does this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Rock
    Tool
    Bartok
    Xenakis
    All of them are great
    Fibonacci sequence or not

  7. Re:First Post! by Sharpner · · Score: 2, Insightful