Synopsis The Dekaaz poetic form, similar to haiku with its constrained syllable counts per line, invites a connection between poetry and mathematics. Determining the number of possible Dekaaz variations leads to some interesting counting observations. We discuss two different ways to count the number of possible Dekaaz variations, one using a binary framework and the other approaching the count...

Automatic analysis of poetic rhythm is a challenging task that involves linguistics, literature, and computer science. When the language to be analyzed is known, rule-based systems or data-driven methods can be used. In this paper, we analyze poetic rhythm in English and Spanish. We show that the representations of data learned from character-based neural models are more informative than the on...

If we consider the creative processes artists go through in making a work of art, is there a way to model these processes and "re-embody" them within computer mediated interactive environments? Computers present an artistic medium which heightens the potential for an intermingling of the knowledge of the viewer with the "re-embodied intelligence" of an author. Given that computers can house "re...

In his little-known 1539 collection of epigrams, Jacques Delaunay (Jacobus Alnetus), a physician and canon Saint-Étienne de Troyes, includes two important, hitherto unnoticed, poetic exchanges between the monastic humanist poets Jean Dampierre Nicolas Marconville himself. After brief presentation these figures, present article examines principal themes literary techniques characteristic poems t...

OETRY is not only central in the title, but for the study of the Hebrew Bible. There is no intention here of disvaluing the prose of the Bible, which constitutes the first major literary composition in that medium ever produced, so far as I am aware, whether we speak of the so-called Court History and the J source of the Pentateuch of the 10th century B.C., or the composite whole which we may c...