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Poetry (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

1, 2, 4, 8 and 16.25 unless I'm somehow miscounting due to jetlag...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nope, you're exactly right. The final line has more than 2^4^ words.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone want to tell him the fourth line isn't twice as long as the 3rd?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's doubling the word count, not the physical length.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair. But if that's the case, the last line is over budget with the last "f..."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

And that’s why art is art.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

there are 17 words if you also count the one that didn't fit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

fucking fast fits neatly :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

compare to:

Oulipo (French pronunciation: [ulipo], short for French: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature", stylized OuLiPo) is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works using constrained writing techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo