Notes:

3² + 4² = 5².

This poem demonstrates the theorem of Pythagoras for a triangle with sides of lengths 3, 4 and 5 units respectively. The poem consists purely of monosyllabic words with either 3, 4 or 5 letters. There are three stanzas, corresponding to the sides of the triangle. The first stanza has three lines of three words each (3² = 9 words in total), the second stanza has four lines with four words each (4²= 16 words in total) and the third stanza has five lines of five words each (5² = 25 words in total).

Each word in the 3- and 4-line stanzas occurs only once. The 5-line stanza consists of all the words that make up the other two stanzas.

This poem is from my collection Triangles  (Penteract Press, 2023).