| * Similar experiments can be performed on other scales for longer poems:
look for repeated roots in half-lines or lines. |
| * The root can be a repeated sound or pattern
of sounds, or an idea. |
| * Of course, other poets can be studied. |
| * We might expect more
traditional poets to be less fractal, but is this correct? |
| * Perhaps poets more sensitive
to nature would be more fractal, but is this correct? |
| * Are there differences between
poems in different languages? |
| |
| Pollard-Gott offers this advice about seeking
fractal patterns in poetry, "Look for some subset of the poem that
bears a structural resemblance to the poem as a whole - that
is self-similarity." |