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 Ulcérations 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.