echo poem

English

Etymology

After a technique developed by Aurélien Dauguet in 1972.

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.

See also

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