TABLE OF FORMS

lipo-

poly-

ana-

hetero-

homo-

trans-

acrostic

palindrome

counting

abecedarian

Typographic

Letter

-gram

LIPOGRAM:
deliberately exclude a particular letter

Birthday 29, Disappearing Cities, Into Tilting Ruins, Mayor Guiliani, Nothing, Vanity

POLYGRAM:
use letters only from a list / exclude particular letters

UNIVOCALIC

ANAGRAM:
using the letter pool from a particular phrase, use all the letters before repeating any of them

A Kite, Plundered Ploughman, Triple Anagram,

HETEROGRAM:
no two adjacent words have a letter in common

HETEROLITERAL

Stranded

HOMOGRAM:
every two adjacent words have a letter in common

TRANSGRAM, WORD LADDER / DOUBLETS

Analyzing Haze, Reading by the Light of the Dead, Slip Poetry, Yes!

TRANSGRAM:
a particular letter is in every word

[letter poetry], Inattentive Waiter, Into Tilting Ruins, Poetry Reading, Stay/Go, Vanilla Vagina Utopia

ACROSTIC:
a particular letter is in a particular position each word or line

ALLITERATION, SUBLIMINAL SENTENCE, DIASTIC, MESOSTIC, TELESTICH

[subliminal sentence],Class Debate, Missed, Seriously Kissing, Vanilla Vagina Utopia, Left

ISOGRAM:
doesn't repeat a letter

PANGRAM:
a poem using every letter

Pangrammatic Oath, List Of Verbs To Do

SERIAL POETRY, 20 CONSONANT, SIX VOWEL,

use every consonant or vowel once before repeating any of them

PALINDROME:
the sequence of letters is the same forward and backward

NIL, Naive Plug, Raw War

NUMBER POETRY:
before writing, decide how many letters there will be

[number poetry], Poetry Reading, Birthday 29

HAICOUP

ABECEDERIAN:
vowels and/ or consonants are in alphabetic order.

Oh John Don’t Go To Kosovo!

Word

(number of letters)

-nol

LIPONOL

exclude all words a particular number of letters in length

POLYNOL

limit yourself to a few particular wordlengths

Poetry Reading, The Poor Get More Poor, Garret Duet

ANANOL

limit yourself to words that are a few particular number of letters in length, using each length before repeating any of them

Missed the Bus to Work Again, Number Poetry, Poetry Class

HETERONOL

no two adjacent lines or sentences share a word the same number of letters in length

The Poor Get More Poor, Garret Duet

HOMONOL

every two adjacent lines share a word the same number of letters in length

TRANSNOL

a word a particular number of letters in length is in every line or stanza

ACROSTONOL

a word a particular number of letters in length is in a particular position in every line or stanza

PANNOL

doesn't repeat a word or line length

Before

use every word length once before repeating any of them

Missed The Bus To Work Again

PALINOL

the sequence of numbers of letters in each word is the same forward and backward

DIAMOND POEM, WORD PALINDROME

decide how many letters will be in each word

Word

(which word)

-nym

LIPONYM

deliberately and conspicuously exclude a particular word

A Kite, Christmas Eve, Disappearing Cities, Nothing

POLYNYM

use only words from a small list

ANANYM

using a limited vocabulary, use all the words before repeating any of them

SESTINA , TRIPLE ANAGRAM

HETERONYM

no two adjacent lines or sentences share a word

HOMONYM

("homonym" also means a word that sounds like another word) every two adjacent lines or sentences share a word

Before

TRANSNYM

a particular word is in every line, sentence, or stanza

SESTINA

WORD ACROSTIC

the secret message is revealed by reading, in order, the first word of each consecutive line or sentence

Separation of Degrees

ISONYM / NONPATTERN

don’t repeat a word

Nevermore

WORD PALINDROME

the sequence of words is the same forward and backward

before writing, decide how many words there will be

Manifesto, Birthday 29

words are in alphabetic order

New Order Poem, Vanilla Vagina Utopia

Sentence /Line

-line

exclude a particular line or sentence

Nevermore

POLYLINE

use only lines from a small list

ANALINE

using a limited number of different lines or sentences, use each of them before repeating any of them

TRIPLE ANAGRAM

HETEROLINE

no two adjacent stanzas or paragraphs share a line or a sentence

HOMOLINE

every two adjacent stanzas or paragraphs share a line or a sentence

PANTOUM

TRANSLINE

a particular line or sentence is in every stanza or paragraph

VILLANELLE

LINE ACROSTIC

the secret message is revealed by reading, in order, the first lines or sentences of each consecutive stanza or paragraph

ISOLINE

don’t repeat a line

LINE PALINDROME

the sequence of lines or sentences is the same forward and backward

So Criminal a Police to Police a Criminal So

before writing, decide how many lines or sentences there will be

Manifesto

lines are in alphabetic order

Analyzing Haze, New Order Poem, University High, Vanilla Vagina Utopia