One of my recent poetry acquisition treasures is Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, edited by Annie Finch and Alexandra Oliver (Everyman's Lbrary, 2015). From a DC poet and friend, Paul Hopper, a few weeks ago I received comments about one of the sections of this collection -- a section containing stanzas in hendecasyllabics, that is, in 11-syllable lines Hopper has sent a sample quatrain of hendecasyllabics that points to "Into Melody" by Lewis Turco. A bit of mathematical terminology is found in the opening lines of Peter Kline's "Hendecasyllabics for Robert Frost" -- and I offer these samples below.
Hopper's quatrain:
Someone should build a large dodecahedron,
with a poem in hendecasyllabics
on each pentagonal face except the base.
I'd start with this poem by Lewis Turco.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
A wedding song -- shaped by mathematics
This posting includes a stanza from of "A Wedding on Earth" by Annie Finch. In the poet's words: the poem has 11 stanzas with 11 lines for a total of 121 lines, this number symbolizing the two single members of a pair joining into a 2, which is the prevailing theme of the poem; and each stanza combining [averaging] the stanza of Spenser's epithalamion (18 lines) with Sappho's stanza (4 lines).
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