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What is the shortest universal poem for a given length of rhyming pattern?

Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

Chalkdust dissertation prize 2025
Calling all final-year students! This is your opportunity to get your work published as a Chalkdust article.
Chalkdust dissertation prize
Calling all final-year students!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
Issue 18
Twitch streaming, abacuses and Pascal's secrets feature in our AW23 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Chalkdust issue 10 – Coming 24 October
Come along to our launch party for free pizza and the real quiz
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 04
Moonlighting agony uncle Prof. Dirichlet answers more of your personal problems