Thanks, everyone! I now have all the leads I need. The link to the Oulipo website was especially helpful. (I meant to send this email to the whole list yesterday evening, but it turns out that I accidentally sent it only to Eric, with the result that Dan Asimov and Jean-Paul Delahaye and others thought I was still seeking help; apologies for that.) Jim ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Eric Angelini* <Eric.Angelini@kntv.be <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Eric.Angelini@kntv.be');>> Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Subject: Mallarme and Thue-Morse To: "jamespropp@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jamespropp@gmail.com');>" < jamespropp@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jamespropp@gmail.com');>> Hello James, here you have 7 pages (!) of such ABBA BAAB rhyming schema: http://blogs.oulipo.net/qc/category/formule-de-rimes/quatrain/q16-abba-baab/ I guess the most famous author here is Paul Valery: Je ne veux pas que tu sois triste (title = "I don't want you to be sad") Je ne veux pas que tu sois triste Puisque tu sais que je le suis, Ma lointaine, moi qui ne puis Ignorer que l’amour existe Depuis que mes jours et mes nuits De tes yeux mirent l’améthyste Et m’agitent cette batiste Qui voilait ce que je poursuis … Amèrement ma bouche avide Baise une place que je vois : Mes mains se perdent dans le vide Où se perd l’ombre de ma voix … Ö fantôme du château mien, Ne sois pas triste : c’est mon bien. Best, É. (going now to bed) ________________________________________ De : math-fun [math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] de la part de James Propp [jamespropp@gmail.com] Date d'envoi : mardi 10 janvier 2017 23:24 À : math-fun Objet : [math-fun] Mallarme and Thue-Morse Do any of you know any comp lit or poetry afficionados who'd have access to the first draft of Mallarme's poem "Le Pitre Chatie", which I gather used an abbabaab rhyme scheme for its first eight lines? I would like to use it in my essay on the Thue-Morse sequence. As always, I prefer using a couple of minutes of someone else's time (and giving them credit) instead of spending an hour of my own time (especially since a book giving preliminary versions of Mallarme's poems might be in French and hence hard for me to navigate). Thanks, Jim Propp _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun