Thursday, July 26, 2012 | By: Chim's World of Literature

Unknown


 
Unknown
 
Not 
Knowing is
Better than
Having the notion
Of seeking answers that you cant find.
 
 
 
 Tetractys
Tetractys, a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing, 
consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10
syllables (total of 20).  Tetractys can be written with more than one verse,
 but must follow suit 
with an inverted syllable count.  Tetractys can also 
bereversed and written 10, 4, 3, 2, 1.  

Double Tetractys:  1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1

Triple Tetractys: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10

and so on.

"Euclid, the mathematician of classical times, considered the
 number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have mystical 
significance because its sum is 10, so he dignified it with a name of 
its own - Tetractys.  The tetractys 
could be Britain's answer to the haiku. Its challenge is to express a 
complete thought, profound or 
comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of
 twenty syllables." - Ray Stebbing 

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