Stanza permutation¶

stanza_permutation · permutation · catalogued

A poem built so that its stanzas may be read in any order, the sequence being left to the reader.

Provenance¶

Source: Oulipo, Atlas de littérature potentielle (1981)
Attribution: reference — attested in a standard reference rather than traced to an origin
Checkability: none — no computable acceptance criterion exists
Attested: codified — formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author

Details¶

Kind: constructive
Languages: en
Requires: tokens
Deterministic: yes

Prompt hint¶

Write stanzas that hold in any order, none referring back to another.

Why this has no checker¶

This procedure has no computable acceptance criterion, so it will never be implemented. It is catalogued because the form belongs in an honest survey of the field, and denckring status counts it separately rather than reporting a gap that cannot close.