Anagrammatic poetry

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.

A poet that specializes in anagrams is an anagrammarian.[1]

Writing anagrammatic poetry is a form of a constrained writing similar to writing pangrams or long alliterations.

List of anagrammatic poems

  • Archive of Literary Anagrams:[2] Hundreds of long anagrams of poetic and literary subjects by over 50 contributors, including the longest literary anagram ever created.
  • Eight Poems in the Manner of OuLiPo, by Kevin McFadden[3]
  • Oh Damn! Must I Refrigerate?:[4] Anagrammatic poem by Cory Calhoun of the title and first eight lines of Shakespeare's sonnet "The Marriage of True Minds."
  • Dianagrams and Monica Lewinsky by Pip Eastop[5]
  • Rishi Talks to Katie:[6] a dialogue between two high school students: a text's sentences are rearranged, then its words, then its letters
  • In the French poem UlcĂ©rations by Georges Perec, every line is an anagram of the title.
  • The book Permutation City opens with an anagramatic poem.
  • In the poem Washington Crossing the Delaware by David Shulman (1936), all 14 lines are anagrams of the title.
  • In the online book, ISOTOPES2 by Daniel Zimmerman, each line of the 14 line poems anagrams a 4 x 4 word square.[7]
  • The Uncertainty of the Poet, by Wendy Cope, is a gentle poem that repeatedly shuffles its words.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Tea with Kevin McFadden. An Interview by F. David Mencken". Archipelago. Volume 6, number 2. http://www.archipelago.org/vol6-2/recommend.htm
  2. ^ "Literary Anagrams from the Archives of the Anagrammy Awards". www.anagrammy.com. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Kevin McFadden - Eight Poems in the Manner of OuLiPo".
  4. ^ "Internet Anagram Server : The Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare (Anagram)". wordsmith.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  5. ^ "Links to poem pages". 8 May 2003. Archived from the original on 8 February 2005. Retrieved 29 February 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ "Rishi Talks To Danielle". spinelessbooks.com. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Isotopes2" (PDF). beardofbees.com. October 2007. Retrieved 25 April 2023.