The poem
Belief = (Behavior)(Luck) ⁄ Horseshoes
The value of belief is to the value of behavior as the value of luck is to the value of horseshoes.
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.
- Belief = (Behavior)(Luck) ⁄ Horseshoes
- Behavior = (Belief)(Horseshoes) ⁄ Luck
- Luck = (Horseshoes)(Belief) ⁄ Behavior
- Horseshoes = (Luck)(Behavior) ⁄ Belief