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"Sam Blanning" <enquiries@nationalcoursingclub.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>Technically, that's not ASCII art. That's some form of poetry. I can't
>remember what it's called, but someone else will surely know. 

In this relationship I heard of the term "visual poetry", might be the
one you were looking for.

>There are many
>other examples of poetry written in the form of a picture. Unfortunately I
>can't remember any that I could put a title or a theme to.

I collected some German ones, here's my attempt to translate them:

EbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTideTide
EbbsEbbs  TideTideTideTide
Ebbs  TideTideTideTideTide
EbbsEbbs  TideTideTideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbsEbbsEbbs  Tide
EbbsEbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTideTide
EbbsEbbs  TideTideTideTide
Ebbs  TideTideTideTideTide
EbbsEbbs  TideTideTideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbsEbbsEbbs  Tide
EbbsEbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTideTide
EbbsEbbs  TideTideTideTide
Ebbs  TideTideTideTideTide
EbbsEbbs  TideTideTideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbsEbbsEbbs  Tide
EbbsEbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTideTide
EbbsEbbs  TideTideTideTide
Ebbs  TideTideTideTideTide
EbbsEbbs  TideTideTideTide
EbbsEbbsEbbs  TideTideTide


Nah - the following doesn't look good when it's translated. The phrase
"Die Zeit verrinnt" means "Time goes by", "Tempus fugit".


 Die Zeit verrinnt      
 Die Zeit verrinnt                
 Die Zeit verrinnt      
 Die Zeit verrinnt                       
  Die Zeit verrin                        
   Die Zeit verr      
    Die Zeit ve       
     Die Zeit         
      Die Zei                    
       Die Z                      
        Die                
         D               
         i               
         e               
         Z               
         e               
         i               
         t               
         v               
         e               
        Dri                          
      eitrZDe            
    ntitiinevtr          
 eiDtrZinnDentiZi       
 ieDiviDvnrZDntrti      
 reeiZetrtvinZeZet      
 ntvDvnriZDedivrrZ
 DnZtvenntrZrnteie
 iviDvnrZvntrtiieD


And i made one my own, some months ago. It's german, too. 

http://www.abiteuer.de/temp/truegerischewahrheit.txt

The big white letters spell out "Wahrheit", which means "thruth". It is
made out of the word "Luege" (sorry, the umlaut ue is not ascii char),
which means "lie".

benjamin