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THE TALES OF AYELSFARN (An Aethereal Menagerie)
(Second Edition)
Copyright 1991 by Robert Bryan Reinhardt
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Includes all original and revised poetry and prose
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The Tales of Ayelsfarn; An Aetherial Managerie I (1985)
The Tales of Ayelsfarn; An Aetherial Managerie II (1991)
Copyright 1985, 1991 by Robert Bryan Reinhardt
ISBN 0-8059-2988-6
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c2. Meter value formula (satire)
A formula to assist the critic to perform composition
surveying:
meter value = 5.37, scale posit = 5, meter error = .63,
2. In the example a survey was made of 24 compositions with
(84 stanzas and 9 paragraphs), with a total of 483 lines (an
average of 20.125 lines and 3.75 stanzas/paragraphs per
composition. This yields an average meter error of .63,
depicting a field of 4 through 6 (scale posit is 5) and a base
of 24.
3. When surveying a total number of compostions less than or
equal to (2), the base will not be coherent to the normal
number line.
4. Judging performance in meter may be conducted by recording
and comparing the meter value, field, and meter error or the
meter base value (for a measure of compostion density). I
recommend using meter value, field, and meter error to measure
performance.
5. In the above example, it was a matter of fortune that the
base value (24) equals the total number of compositions
surveyed (24). This will not occur very often using the
prescribed formula. One may describe such an occurence as a
"diameterically sound" collection of compositions in relation
to density.
6. Astrological significance. I recommend using the lowest
field factor up the scale ot the base value to determine the
range or group of whole numbers with parapsychological
importance to a particular collection of compositions. In the
above example the numerological range would be all whole
numbers (4..24).
7. General information. The odd whole number within the
meter field is called the "scale posit" (5 in the above
example) and it is this number divided into the base value
that yields the base mean posit value. When determining the
difference between the base mean posit and the meter error,
the figure will yield the total possible error experienced
when using this formula. The total possible error divided by
100 yields the value of the total possible error percentage
when using this formula. The percentage of formula error will
vary upon the base and/or total number of compositions
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