: Re: At what point in editing / revising does one poem become another poem? Many writing journals say they will not publish previously published poems. But if I revise a previously published poem,

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Assumed you only regard changes of words within a text, f.i.., a poem. And each word should at most be changed once. Then the number of changes you could possibly make is equal to the number of words.

Say w is the number of words and
say c is the number of word changes
(so 0<=c<=w)

The change rate r shall be equal to c/w
(so 0<=r<= 1).

Now intuitively if r is very small (near to 0) you might want to consider the texts being the same and in case r is big (almost 1) you will tend to consider the revised text to be new. When r is neither near to 0 nor near to 1 you could justify both, i.e., to call it a new text or to call it the same.

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