- Univocalic
A univocalic is a type of
constrained writing that uses only one vowel (i.e., only uses one of A, E, I, O, or U). It can thus be considered alipogram , excluding the other four vowels.One of the best-known univocalic poems was written by C.C. Bombaugh in 1890, centred on the vowel "o". Here's a sample couplet:
:No cool monsoons blow soft on Oxford dons,:Orthodox, jog-trot, book-worm Solomons
Bombaugh's work is still in print, and his "Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature" in particular is full of oddities of this kind.
The Austrian poet
Ernst Jandl composed his univocalic poem "Ottos Mops" (Otto's Pug) from German words with only the vowel "o".A contemporary example of English-language univocalic poems is Canadian poet
Christian Bök 's text Eunoia, published byCoach House Press in 2001.External links
*" [http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/81jim.htm Jim] ", a univocalic poem by George Simmers
*" [http://www.ubu.com/sound/bok.html Eunoia] ", recordings of Christian Bök reading the complete text on UbuWeb
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