User:Grika/Emblematic Poetry

Emblematic Poetry is the Victorian Era term for two kinds of poetry: 1. verses printed in a specific shape (Concrete Poetry, Micrography or Calligram); and 2. poetry where some words are replaced with letters or images that represent sounds.

Herbert's "Easter Wings", a pattern poem in which the work is not only meant to be read, but its shape is meant to be appreciated: In this case, the poem was printed (original image here shown) on two pages of a book, sideways, so that the lines suggest two birds flying upward, with wings spread out.

An example of the first is the poem "Easter Wings" by George Herbert.

An example of the second meaning is a poem containing the following from Charles C Bombaugh:

He says he loves U 2 X S,	He says he love you to excess
U R virtuous and Y's,	You are virtuous and wise,
In X L N C U X L	In excellency you excel
All others in his i's.	All others in his eyes.

Sometimes, letters that together represented a word were kept together as with modern internet/chat slang:

Fair LN G	Fair Ellen Gee
In Funeral RA,	In funeral array,
A clay-cold corse doom'd to B,	A clay-cold course doom'd to be,
Whilst I mourn her DK.	Whilst I morn her decay.

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