Anagram Poem

An anagram poem is a constrained form where each letter appears exactly twice, ensuring no unused or single letters. The poem rearranges letters from base words or phrases to create new, meaningful lines while maintaining this balance.

Silent Lie

Lie! Listen—tiles line
ill nets—IE—silent Lie

Anagram poems can be simple or complex leaning heavily into wordplay and surrealism. The example below, though having some linguistic clarity has a raw and disorienting style.

Notice Drunk Saint—

I can tie tons drunk— a ton, its nice drunk. Can one sit it drunk?
It, a drunk ton since—a saint cite no drunk. Not ‘citen’ is a drunk!
Drunk! I no sit, a cent—it is, can tone drunk? A drunk snot incite!
Its not a nice drunk —incite sat no drunk —net is drunk action.

Tine a drunk con sit. At is to drunk nice! N.C. is drunk, not a tie!

Cite a sin—not drunk! Drunk, atone tic sin! Is N.C. it? Atone drunk! Notice, drunk saint—‘tis not a nice drunk—a-tonic tines… drunk!

The poem “Notice Drunk Saint—” plays with the sounds and meanings of words, weaving phonetic repetition and anagrams into a chaotic, almost surreal meditation on “drunk” and “saint.” It’s written in a fragmented style, blurring the boundaries between sense and nonsense. The repetition of “drunk” is a creative choice to anchor the anagram to a specific theme.

A Loose Anagram is a new form invented by Royal. It involves a composition in which each letter used in the text appears in pairs, ensuring no letters are omitted or repeated that would equal an odd number of any letter. The title should reflect the theme, but it does not have to encompass the full structure of the anagram. This approach allows for greater flexibility.

The Personality of Mia Mohane

“I, if on restful days, arise late, whoever in a fluster, on the earliest of days beneath the moon is miff, as I, Mia Mohane? Enraged, angered, however, as an antagonist, be not against a saint.”

Here’s the analysis:

A and E are used 20 times each, which is even.

N is used 14 times (even).

I, S, T are used 12 times each(even).

O is used 10 times (even).

R is used 8 times (even).

F, H, L, are used 6 times each (even).

D, G, and M are used 4 times each (even).

U, Y, W, V, and B are used 2 times each (even).
To verify the anagram, cross out each letter in pairs as you find them in the poem. If all letters are used an even number of times with none left over, or if by counting a letter, count shows only even occurrences, the poem adheres to the loose anagram form.