Math and Poetry Can Intersect
I am not very good at math. Math can be super interesting, but I just never got it. However, that does not mean that I gave up on it. Instead, I try to learn mathematical things here and there and am excited when something new enters my brain quarry. There is a common joke that goes like this, "I did not understand math, so I became a(n) XXX", where the XXX could be "lawyer", "artist", "counselor", or about any other occupation short of mathematician, engineer, or accountant. In an effort to celebrate the two worlds of math and language, I attempted an experiment. This is an example of structured verse. That means that there is a defined structure to the poem. More specifically, it is an example of syllabic verse. That means that there are constraints on lines or stanzas based purely on the number of syllables. In this poem, I constrained myself to a specific number of syllables in each line. The number of syllables per line