Syllables like shell-spirals

Look, it’s a brand-new poetic form! The Fib is the invention of Gregory K. of GottaBook, and it’s kind of like a haiku, except that it’s got more than three lines, and the number of syllables to a line is based on the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, and so on. (As a word-geek with latent math-geek tendencies, I have to say: That is just so cool.) I think Edith Sitwell would’ve liked it — the opening lines of "When Sir Beelzebub called for his syllabub" were what I thought of when I read the description. (Via the New York Times.)

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