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@WhatamIdoing: I just wrote an article on retrograde verse, in which a poem can be read in both directions word by word, and was going to write one on palindromic verse, in which a poem can be read in both directions letter by letter (as here), and then I saw this article, about poems that can be read in both directions line by line. Yet, it isn't clear to me how the Chinese form is supposed to fit into this. Srnec (talk) 00:37, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know enough about the Chinese language to know whether the characters used (in the 4th century) represent whole words or parts of words. The modern English poems that are given that name (but which I believe are more often called reversible poems) are read forwards and backwards, whole line by whole line, rather than word by word or character by character.
