echo poem

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.3 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

After a technique developed by Aurélien Dauguet in 1972.

[edit] Noun

echo poem (plural echo poems)

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

[edit] See also

• An encyclopedia of surrealist techniques
• A workshop on poetry, also mentioning the related term "echo verse".