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Anagrammatic Poetry

Lyric and Short Poetic Forms

Anagrammatic poetry is poetry with a constrained form in which each line, or each verse, is an anagram of every other line or verse in the poem.

Facts
Notable Example
Washington Crossing the Delaware by David Shulman (1936) 1
Defining Trait
Each line or verse is an anagram of every other line or verse in the poem 1
Sources
1. Anagrammatic poetry, Wikipedia
  • List of anagrammatic poems section
    In the poem 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' by David Shulman (1936), all 14 lines are anagrams of the title.
  • Lead section
    Anagrammatic poetry is poetry with the constrained form that either each line or each verse is an anagram of all other lines or verses in the poem.
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