Retrograde verse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Retrograde verse is "poetry that is metrically and syntactically viable when read both forwards and backwards, word by word".[1]
It is a difficult verse form. There are examples of retrograde verse in Latin from the classical, late antique and medieval periods.[2] Medieval examples include:
- Centum concito by Oswald the Younger[2]
- Terrigene bene nunc laudent by Oswald the Younger[2]
- Book VI of the Quirinalia of Metellus of Tegernsee[3]
- Tu tibi displiceas[2]
- Me merito censo minimam[2]
- Patribus hec omnibus by John of Garland[2]
- Lebuine confessorum, a 15th-century sequence from the Lebuïnuskerk, Deventer[2]