Synopsis The Dekaaz poetic form, similar to haiku with its constrained syllable counts per line, invites a connection between poetry and mathematics. Determining the number of possible Dekaaz variations leads to some interesting counting observations. We discuss two different ways to count the number of possible Dekaaz variations, one using a binary framework and the other approaching the count...

The New American Poetry anthology delineated “schools” of North poetry which have become seminal: Black Mountain School (Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov), the York (John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Frank O’Hara), San Francisco Renaissance (Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer), and Beats (Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure). word seminal is used in a traditional way, fr...

social changes and considering people’s needs are seen as the most important issues in the changes of persian poetry in constitutional era. the writers of this article have considered the views of western and iranian critics to study the function of the addressee in the changes of persian poetry in constitutional era. the use of such a study is that the writers have found and analyzed many soci...

i was using had a chatty, helpful compiler that told me where the bug was and what was wrong—sort of. the trouble was that even when i printed the code and stared at the recalcitrant line, the bug remained hidden. in the end, i finally saw my error: i’d spelled “goto” with two zeros instead of two os. the characters are next to each other on the keyboard, and when printed, they looked almost id...

ROM HARRE, Great scientific experiments, Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. 224, illus., £8.95. In little more than 200 pages Dr. Harre manages to describe the reasoning behind twenty experiments, the apparatus involved, and the results. They cover a wide range of sciences distributed between Aristotle's biology and quantum mechanics. The amount of information included is remarkable. For exa...

Texts are composed of many different strata on different levels. A method is proposed to find the number of strata at the word-form level in Slovak poetry and to study the relationship between the parameters of the fitting function.

Pattern poetry is an art form that combines literary and visual elements to produce poems in which the text and the shape of the poem work together as an aesthetic whole. To fully appreciate a pattern poem one needs to see it as well as hear it. Although varied forms of this art existed throughout history and across cultures, it is only in the 19 century that pattern poetry became a recognized ...

We present SPARSAR, a system for the automatic analysis of poetry(and text) style which makes use of NLP tools like tokenizers, sentence splitters, NER (Name Entity Recognition) tools, and taggers. Our system in addition to the tools listed above which aim at obtaining the same results of quantitative linguistics, adds a number of additional tools for syntactic and semantic structural analysis ...

The Trlcon program has been adapted as an aid to the analysis of syntax in poetry with the hope of identifying the dominant patterns that characterize a poet's style. The Trlcon program (described in Concordances from Com~ , S.M.Lamb and L.Gould, University of Callf0~nia, ey,1964)has three active lines which this researcher has used for text, syntactic analysis (following a phrase-str~cture gra...