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3 September 2005: I'm afraid I'm still involved with terminology. I realized shortly after writing yesterday's entry that "texteme scheme" wasn't a broad enough term to cover visual poetry--or any other kind of pluraesthetic poetry. That's because such poems have more than textual content. A poem must still have a texteme scheme, but the taxonomically higher-level term indicating any poem's (or, for that matter, artwork's) over-all shape on a page or the equivalent is now "aestheme scheme." A visual poem would also include an illumageme scheme, indicating the location of its graphic elements, in partnership with its texteme scheme.
I found a need, too, for a generality covering such things as sonnet-, haiku- and acrostic-forms. Something, that is, that abstractly represents forms with multiple requirements. I haven't yet been able to pin down what kind of forms I'm talking about, so I can't yet make up a term for them. They are specialized. They are mostly "classical," though a form invented today that is used by more than three or four poets more than a few times each within a week would qualify. Hmmm, I already have the word, "classiformular." Ergo, I should just go with "classiform scheme."
Another "eme" word I've come up with is rhetoriceme (soft c). And if I have "denoteme," I have to have "connoteme."
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