Pattern poem¶

pattern_poem · visual · catalogued

A poem laid out in a figure — an egg, an axe, an altar — with the shape fixed before the words.

Provenance¶

Source: Simmias of Rhodes, 4th century BC; revived by George Herbert (1633)
Attribution: reference — attested in a standard reference rather than traced to an origin
Checkability: none — no computable acceptance criterion exists
Attested: codified — formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author

Details¶

Kind: constructive
Languages: en
Requires: tokens
Deterministic: no
Also known as: carmen figuratum, technopaegnion
In other languages: Figurengedicht (de), Poème figuré (fr)

Prompt hint¶

Fix the outline first and fit the poem into it.

Why this has no checker¶

This procedure has no computable acceptance criterion, so it will never be implemented. It is catalogued because the form belongs in an honest survey of the field, and denckring status counts it separately rather than reporting a gap that cannot close.