TY - ART
TI - Triolets
AU - Paul Braffort
AU - Erik Stayton
AU - Patsy Baudoin
AB - "In the Oulipian tradition of combinatorial works --- after Raymond Queneau's <em>Cent mille milliards de poèmes</em>, in which the 14 lines from 10 sonnets, constructed with the same sets of rhymes, can be exchanged to produce one hundred thousand billion unique sonnets --- Paul Braffort's <em>Triolets</em> generates 7,776 unique triolets from the six compatible examples that he composed. The triolet, a French poetic form from the Middle Ages, consists of a poem of two stanzas with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a a-b-a-b. As an additional constraint, line 1 is repeated at lines 4 and 7, and line 2 is repeated at line 8. In the generated triolets, the repeated lines are correctly preserved. This more intricate verse structure thereby benefits from the computational form over the original paper presentation of Queneau's work. In the translation, the rhyme scheme is preserved such that with some variations in pronunciation (e.g., ballet as BA-let) all outputs are valid triolets. This also required the alteration of some place names to preserve as much as possible the sense of the original French. Metrically, however, the French remains more pleasing and euphonous." -- from <em>Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3</em>
C3 - Web
PY - 2014
LA - English, French
M3 - Combinatory, Generative, Poetry
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/824/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-04-26
ER -