The poem
Wisdom = (Adversity)(The Wind) ⁄ The Cage
The value of wisdom is to the value of adversity as the value of the wind is to the value of the cage.
The same poem, solved four ways
A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and a proportion can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Each arrangement is a separate poem and all four say the same thing.
- Wisdom = (Adversity)(The Wind) ⁄ The Cage
- Adversity = (Wisdom)(The Cage) ⁄ The Wind
- The Wind = (The Cage)(Wisdom) ⁄ Adversity
- The Cage = (The Wind)(Adversity) ⁄ Wisdom