Is There A Balance

Sleep
or not?
What to do?
So little time,
so many more things I want to get done.

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Lesson 5

This poetic form was created by Ray Stebbing. "Euclid, the mathematician of classical times, considered the number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have mystical significance because its sum is 10, so he dignified it with a name of its own - Tetractys. The tetractys could be Britain's answer to the haiku. Its challenge is to express a complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of twenty syllables." - Ray Stebbing

Tetractys consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20).