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echo poem

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English

Syllables
echo po-em
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Etymology

After a technique developed by Aurélien Dauguet in 1972.

Inflected Forms

echo poems (plural)

Phrases

An encyclopedia of surrealist techniques A workshop on poetry also mentioning the related term

Frequently Paired Words

An encyclopedia of surrealist techniques A workshop on poetry also mentioning the related term

Questions

What does echo poem mean?
A poem constructed by the surrealist technique of alternately writing a stanza and then "mirroring" it in some fashion to create the following stanza.
Where does echo poem come from?
After a technique developed by Aurélien Dauguet in 1972.

How to pronounce echo poem

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