Iconograph
Picture formed of letters or words From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Picture formed of letters or words From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An iconograph is a picture formed by a word or words. It can take the form of irregularly shaped letters or (especially in the case of poems) irregularly aligned text.
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American poet May Swenson popularized such poems in her 1970 book Iconographs, which contained a number of poems laid out to resemble their subjects (e.g. a butterfly).[1]
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