what do you call the kind of poem that forms a picture with its lines?

Question

it can look like a flower...like this

______ blah
_____ blaaah
______ blah
___blah..........blah
_ blaah.............blaah
___ blah.........blah
______ blah
_____ blaaah
______ blah

Answer 1

it is called a calligramme and was popularised by the french poet guillaume apollinaire around the time of wwi.

calligrammes existed earlier (george herbert's 'easter wings' is one from the seventeenth century), but apollinaire gave the form its name and made it intensely fashionable for most of the 1920s (though apollinaire himself died in the spanish flu of 1918.

Answer 2

Concrete Poem

Poetry in which the poet's intent is conveyed by graphic patterns of letters, words, or symbols rather than by the meaning of words in conventional arrangement. The writer of concrete poetry uses typeface and other typographical elements in such a way that chosen units—letter fragments, punctuation marks, graphemes (letters), morphemes (any meaningful linguistic.

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Answer 3

I believe it might be called Shaped Poetry. I remember studying that particular form in school:)

Answer 4

imagism?
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