Palindrome Poetry
A palindrome poem is where the poem can be read forward and backwards, just like a palindrome word. It comes from the greek word palindromos, palin, meaning again, and dromos, meaning a running. Within these poems there is always a "reversal word" that allows the poem to be reflected. For example "Mirrored images reflect images mirrored", reflect is the reversal word. It is assumed that the palindrome was created first in the French language, along with the anagram, but the first published palindrome poem was published by a greek writer, Ambrose Hieromonachus Paperes. The poem was titled "Ethopoiia Karkinike" and it was composed of 416 lines.
A poet known for his palindrome poetry was J.A. Lindon. His most known palindrome is entitled "The Doppelganger".
An Epitaph
An epitaph poem is a brief rhyming poem that is inscribed onto a person's gravestone. They are written to praise the deceased. Some epitaph poems are not inscribed on tombstones, they are written, and sometimes published, in the first person of a family member that has lost a loved one.
William Wordsworth wrote a well known epitaph that was not inscribed on a gravestone. The poem was titled "The Poets Epitaph"
Tongue Twisters
Tongue twisters are groups of words that, when said really fast, a hard to say or pronounce. Tongue twisters often use alliteration and assonance. Many young children rhymes are tongue twisters, amusing young children as they try to say the words that ties their tongues in knots.
When people first wrote tongue twisters they were used as magic; they were said as "magic words" the cast spells and hexes.
Some examples of tongue twisters are:
"Unique New York."
"Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat."
"I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit."
My Own Tongue Twister
Thickly twisted,
Twisted thicky,
Upon a thick thorn.
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