The poem
Whispers = (Campfires)(Blood) ⁄ Specters
The value of whispers is to the value of campfires as the value of blood is to the value of specters.
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.
- Whispers = (Campfires)(Blood) ⁄ Specters
- Campfires = (Whispers)(Specters) ⁄ Blood
- Blood = (Specters)(Whispers) ⁄ Campfires
- Specters = (Blood)(Campfires) ⁄ Whispers