ANAGRAMMATIC POETRY

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What is Anagrammatic Poetry?

Anagrammatic Poetry is a form of poetry which is basically written using anagrams. Anagram is a word, phrase, or a

name formed by rearranging the letters of another. It can also be written using only the letters from the title ie.,

permuting the fixed array of letters found only in the title.


How to write an Anagrammatic poem?

An anagrammatic poem doesn’t have any restriction on the number of lines or the number of stanzas.

-Pick up a word which has a couple vowels and a good mix of consonants. 

-Create a word list and try to write all possible words which can be formed from the word chosen.

-After creating a word list, it's just a matter of playing around with different word combinations. 


EXAMPLE OF ANAGRAMMATIC POEM:

The Sad Ballad of Cinderella

 ~Mike O`Connor


Cinderella

All ice nerd

Line cradle.


Eli, nerd cad.

Eli in cadre,

Recalled in.


Dine in cellar.

Nil ale rec'd;

Lend eclair.


Nice: all red,

In cell diner,

In dear cell.


Nerd cad, Eli.

All red acne.

Lance idler.


Lancer lied.

I rend a cell.

Cell air end.


Nelli cared.

Neill raced.

Clare led in.


Della nicer.

Raced Neill.

Neill arced,


End ill race.

Cede ill-ran.

Declare nil.


Erin called.

Clean riled.

Call reined.


Call end ire.

Recline lad.

I clan Elder


Cinderella

Ill ace nerd.


Note: None of the poems we present belong to us. We present an organised record and analysis of them. All copyrights

are reserved to the original author and we are not using plagiarized work. The originality of the writers is verified to the

fullest extent we can.


As mentioned, this poem doesn’t have any fixed number of lines or stanzas. And the words used in the poem are from

the title of the poem. There is no rhyme pattern used in this poem. 


Tips to write anagrammatic poem:

  1. Ensure that all the letters in the poem are in the title.

  2. No restriction in the number of lines or stanzas. Just go with the flow.

  3. Create a word list if required which can be helpful most of the time.


Anagrammatic Poetry is not a modern form of poetry but requires a lot of patience and experience. Try our other

blogs to improve your already awesome poetry! Like an anagrammatic poem which doesn’t have any limit on the

number of lines or stanzas, even you don’t have any limit on writing poems. Keep penning!


~Hariesh

Team PoeTree FoRest






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