Diamonte Tautogram — Kind Of

Tautogram

Timely terror

Traumatic to thee

The testament to time

This taboo tactful talent

The theory to take to therapy

This tablet to take to the tabloid

Ten teens too tense to take to tea

Try the taffy taste to talk to this team

The trick times 3 to tempt them 10 teens today

Then there the tattoo tagging, that tat too tactless to taut

Time to take the talent to the theatre takeover too

These 10 take their time to travel to Timbuktu

They talk to the Troup to thank them

Take time talking to the team tech

Then 3 tailors thanked them too

Trauma therapy took the terror

Time to try this

T to tell

3 tall

Tails

Tautograms!

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Challenge: Write a poem where every word starts with the same letter. (I’m not sure whose challenge this was! I like the idea of a word game.)

A tautogram is basically a fancy term for a word game where every word starts with the same letter or sound. It’s like alliteration, but taken to the extreme! It can be a fun way to play with language and create a memorable effect in writing or speech, as well as an effective way to challenge yourself as a writer.

Diamonte is 7 lines — comparing or contrasting two separate things. This poem doesn’t quite fit the daimonte format.

Authors note: I could add nonsense poem to the above, but it makes sense to me.

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First published by Write Under the Moon on medium.com