Pilish is a style of constrained writing in which the lengths of consecutive words or sentences match the digits of the number (pi). The shortest example is any three-letter word, such as "hat", but many longer examples have been constructed, including sentences, poems, and stories.
How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!
The following Pilish poem (written by Joseph Shipley) matches the first 31 digits of π:
A full-length Pilish novel has been published, Not A Wake by Mike Keith which currently holds the record of the longest Pilish text with 10,000 digits represented. "Longest literary work in Pilish". Guinness World Records. 2024-07-19
Since long runs of small non-zero digits are difficult to deal with naturally (such as 1121 or 1111211), another rule set called Standard Pilish was introduced:
The form of a cadae is based on pi on two levels. There are five stanzas, with 3, 1, 4, 1, and 5 lines each, respectively for a total of fourteen lines in the poem. Each line of the poem also contains an appropriate number of syllables. The first line has three syllables, the second has one, the third has four, and so on, following the sequence of pi as it extends infinitely. Mathematic Merges with Verse, Poetry Magnum Opus[3]
Rachel Hommel wrote an untitled "Cadaeic Cadae", which uses the cadaeic form as explained above, and adds a level of complexity to it wherein the number of letters in each word represents a digit of pi. untitled cadaeic cadae by Rachel Hommel, Poetry Magnum Opus[4]
For his book, "The Burning Door," Tony Leuzzi wrote a series of 33 untitled poems in cadaeic form.[5] On Writing Fibonacci and Cadae Poems, by Tony Leuzzi
Some sections of the poem use words of more than ten letters as a one followed by another digit:
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The first part of Cadaeic Cadenza is slightly changed from an earlier version, "Near a Raven", which was a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". Near A Raven, cadaeic.net The text of poem begins:
2. Walkowicz, Nathan (2021) Stile: “An Infinite Mystery” Kindle Direct Publishing.
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