Math and Poetry

Math and Poetry-Maths Practice

Well for instance, take poetry. Poetry has meter, which in essence is the way a poem is structured as to the flow of the syllables. The sonnet is a type of poem consisting of four stanzas: three of which contain four lines, and the last containing two lines. Indeed, math can be found in the sonnet as well as in many other least startling places.

Maths Practice

You see the sonnet has a meter which is known as iambic pentameter. Pentameter refers to the amount of feet a line contains, a foot being a amount of syllables of words. Iambic refers to the amount of syllables and the stress pattern connected with those syllables: the iamb is a foot of two syllables, an unstressed followed by a stressed. Thus a line of iambic pentameter contains ten syllables, and these are such that the pattern is unstressed followed by stressed. This is descriptive by the following: daDum daDum daDum daDum daDum. An example of some lines of iambic pentameter would be the following taken from Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

So what the heck does poetry, iambic pentameter, or the like have to do with math? Before you go off and get ready to commit me, give me a occasion to explain. The point of this narrative is to show that if we look (and literally we sometimes have to look hard, but often times we literally don't), we will see relationships and tie-ins between an abstract discipline like mathematics and other seemingly unrelated fields--like poetry, to wit. You see, we can think of a line of iambic pentameter--the key meter of any sonnet--as being composed of a string of 0's and 1's, in which the 0's represent the unstressed syllables and the 1's represent the stressed syllables. Thus the daDum's above come to be 01's, and a line of iambic pentameter becomes 01 01 01 01 01. For those of you who identify this pattern, you observation that we have converted the meter of the sonnet into a binary pattern of digits. By converting the sonnet into this binary pattern, we can spot at once either each line of a sonnet fits rigorously into the iambic structure or not. For any line that does not alternate between 0's and 1's, with five of each in each line, would technically fall outside this structure.

Indeed many lines of many sonnets fall outside this structure. Just read the sonnets of Shakespeare or Emily Dickinson, for that matter. However, this structure is followed as a guiding principle. Deviations occur for the sake of expression and also because deviations sometimes...are good.

So here we have discovered a weird relationship between binary digits and--of all things--poetry. fantasize how many other things we could recognize if we just used a little imagination. For this reason, I say without reservation that math literally rules and all else, kind of drivels. And for those of you who realized while reading this that those binary digits are what form the foundation for computer technology--yes that's right, the computer would not be if man did not harness the power of those little seemingly insignificant 0's and 1's--take a bow.

Yes. Math rules. And by the way, why don't you chew on this binary digit stuff while you outline out a way how to make more money with Google's Adsense Program. Just a kidding thought. Till next time...

See more at Math Poems

Related articles:Spring Valley Vitamins ,ทำ seo ,ดาราจัดฟัน