Three Poems from One Fountain

Authors

Howard W. Bergerson
A. Ross Eckler

Abstract

Take a poem and rearrange its words into an alphabetical list; then give this list to a person unfamiliar with the original poem and ask him to construct a second poem out of this material. How similar will the two poems be?

Recommended Citation

Bergerson, Howard W. and Eckler, A. Ross (1970) "Three Poems from One Fountain," Word Ways: Vol. 3 : Iss. 3 , Article 4.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol3/iss3/4