Cadaeic Cadenza is a 1996 short story by Mike Keith. It is a lipogram, a book with restrictions on how it can be written. This article is in need of attention. ... Mike Keith is the radio play-by-play voice of the NFLs Tennessee Titans. ... A lipogram (from Greek lipagrammatos, missing letter) is a kind of writing with constraints or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is missing, usually a common vowel, the most common in English being e (McArthur, 1992). ...

Cadaeic Cadenza has perhaps the harshest limitations on the exact words that can be used, but also results in uncommon sounding language. In addition to the main restriction, the author attempts to mimic portions, or entire works of different types and pieces of literature (The Raven, Hamlet, Jabberwocky, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Rubaiyat, and Carl Sandburg's Grass) in story, structure, and rhyme. Gustave Doré illustrated The Raven. ... The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and is his most well-known and oft-quoted plays. ... Jabberwocky or ykcowrebbaJ is a poem (of nonsense verse) found in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll. ... The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Composed February 1910 - July 1911) is the main poem in the book Prufrock and Other Observations published by T. S. Eliot in 1917, which marked the start of his career as a writer. ... Rubaiyat is a common shorthand name for the collection of Persian verses known more formally as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. ...

When the number of letters in each word are written out, they form the first 3834 digits of pi. The minuscule, or lower-case, pi The mathematical constant π is the ratio of a circles circumference (Greek περιφέρεια, periphery) to its diameter and is commonly used in mathematics, physics, and engineering. ...

 One A Poem A Raven Midnights so dreary tired and weary, 3. 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 

While in this example each word is the same number of letters as the next digit of pi, some sections use words of more than ten letters as a one followed by another digit:

 And fear overcame my being - the fear of "forevermore". 3 4 8 2 5 3 4 2 11 

where 11 represents two consecutive ones in pi.
The name of the piece itself is based on pi, as "Cadaeic" is the first 7 digits of pi, when rounded.

 C a d a e i c 3.1 4 1 5 9 3 

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