calligram

She also created a mural-sized calligram (an arrangement of words that creates a related visual image).

His poem written in the form of the Eiffel Tower is an example of a calligram.

Guillaume Apollinaire was a famous calligram writer and author of a book of poems called Calligrammes.

In 1926, Contimporanul published his French-language calligram and "sonnet", which recorded in writing a couple's disjointed replies during the sexual act.

A calligram is a poem, phrase, or word in which the typeface, calligraphy or handwriting is arranged in a way that creates a visual image.

As if to confirm this influence, Apollinaire's calligram "Voyage" was included in the center of a triptych which formed by opening the six hinged pages of the issue.

Calligrammes is noted for how the typeface and spatial arrangement of the words on a page plays just as much of a role in the meaning of each poem as the words themselves - a form called a calligram.