English Explanatory Dictionary

echo poem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A poem constructed by the surrealist technique of alternately writing a stanza and then "mirroring" it in some fashion to create the following stanza.

Word forms

echo poem echo poems

Etymology

After a technique developed by Aurélien Dauguet in 1972.

Related words

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