Meanwhile, I've decided not to make up a new word for "kind of poetic form," but go with "poetic scheme." I believe I can refer to every possible way a poem can be shaped as a scheme consisting of the units defining the shape--e.g., rhyme scheme. A texteme scheme will use x's or the equivalent to show where each texteme in a poem is. Or x's and X's, to indicate size. A poem's texteme scheme would be its overall abstract shape. Right now it seems to me that the only other consequential schemes solitextual poetry (poetry that is only textual) uses are repeneme schemes. Color schemes and the like would come into play in visual poetry, and musical schemes for sound poetry, and so forth.

. Now that I have the terms, "poetic scheme," and "poetreme," I can get around the form/content problem by stating, simply, that every poem consists of just two fundamental things: poetic schemes and poetremes.

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