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An example, in English, of boustrophedon as used in inscriptions in ancient Greece (Lines 2 and 4 read right-to-left.) Boustrophedon (/ ˌ b uː s t r ə ˈ f iː d ən / [1]) is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style. This is in contrast to modern European ...
Reversible poems, called hui-wen shih poems, were a Classical Chinese artform.The most famous poet using this style was the 4th-century poet Su Hui, who wrote an untitled poem now called "Star Gauge" (Chinese: 璇璣圖; pinyin: xuán jī tú). [1]
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Back-and-forth method, a method of showing isomorphism between countably infinite structures satisfying specified conditions Back and Forth (software) , a shareware program for DOS Topics referred to by the same term
A Gest of Robyn Hode (also known as A Lyttell Geste of Robyn Hode) is one of the earliest surviving texts of the Robin Hood tales. Written in late Middle English poetic verse, it is an early example of an English language ballad, in which the verses are grouped in quatrains with an ABCB rhyme scheme, also known as ballad stanzas.
A papyrus manuscript preserving Sappho's "Fragment 5", a poem written in Sapphic stanzas. The Sapphic stanza, named after the Ancient Greek poet Sappho, is an Aeolic verse form of four lines.
Wikisummaries summary and analysis of Inferno; Danteworlds, multimedia presentation of the Divine Comedy for students by Guy Raffa of the University of Texas; Dante's Places: a map (still a prototype) of the places named by Dante in the Commedia, created with GoogleMaps. Explanatory PDF is available for download
In order to fit the most meaning into few characters, micropoetry often breaks traditional rules of grammar and lexicon [citation needed], as in this example: evrywhr:i c mmnts crl'd back like lips frm ancnt teeth;evrywhr:i C the bones,their shapes ntwined in2 the flowrs of gd's infnite spirogrph [6]