Saclolo, Michael P. (Author)
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Volume: 58, no. 5
Issue: 5
Pages: 682-687
Arnaut's sestina is an example of courtly love poetry. The last three-line stanza unequivocally declares the poet's intention to please his noble lady. What interests us here, however, is how the six six-line stanzas, or sextets, use the same six ending words in a permutation given by the cycle (124536). The arrangement of the ending words in each sextet corresponds to a power of this cycle, and so if we were to compose a seventh sextet, we would arrive at one with the original arrangement of the six ending words. Poets and, lately, mathematicians have been fascinated by this poetic form, and the desire to generalize it has led to the investigation
...MoreDescription On the mathematics within the structure of poems.
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