Anagram

In some cases, the keyword itself is not present in the text and is presented only in a distributed, encrypted form ("Dividing my delight and my desire" - Swinburne ; encoded by the English die "die"), in others a couple of words are clearly given, representing more or each other's less accurate anagram:

But also in REALISM, if desired,

will find a conspiracy with ISRAEL.

Jan Satunovsky

Lun

zero

WHO

call

Hall

bitterness

Today

eat

Konstantin Kedrov

(Here an anagram is understood as a specific kind of rhyme , covering the entire verse, since the sound proximity of words and their positional identity are a sign of semantic convergence - cf. Kedrov’s article “The Birth of a Metametaphor” in the book “Poetic Cosmos”, 1989).

In the extreme case, the entire text is anagrammatic:

I am the line, I live, sharp measure.

Over the seven seas of the sprout I see growth.

I am an orphan in the world.

I'm in Rome - Ariost.

Dmitry Avaliani

(It is characteristic that in the last two verses, as above by Kedrov, pairs of words are “rhymed” with an anagram, while in the first two verses pairwise correspondences do not have such fundamental significance, since the positions of the components of a pair of words in a line are different.)

In Dmitry Avaliani, who widely practiced this method of writing, the anagram turns from a reception, even if it’s important, into a literary form ^[2] . Such an understanding of the anagram also brings it closer to the palindrome , which was reflected in the works of Elena Katsyuba combining the palindrome and anagram starting with the poem “Dump” (first edition in 1983 ). Wed also Kedrov’s book “Astral” ( 1986 ).

Despite the fact that close attention to anagram in poetry falls on a relatively recent time (in Russian poetry, apparently, beginning with Kedrov’s anagrammatic poem “Antediluvian Ev-Angel-IE”, 1978 , and verses by Vladimir Gershuni of the 1980s ), this technique seems to be among the oldest: from the lectures of Ferdinand de Saussure there is an idea of ​​the widespread use of anagrams in the oldest epics : “Mahabharata” and “Ramayana” , “Iliad” and “Odyssey” , as well as in the Bible ; magical action has been attributed to anagrams since ancient times, in particular, the texts of the Vedas . However, the poet and scientist Lycophron , who lived in Ancient Greece in the III century BC, are considered the ancestor of the anagram . e. As the Byzantine author John Tzec reported , from the name of Tsar Ptolemy he composed the first known anagram: Πτολεμαῖος - ἀπὸ μέλιτος, which means “from honey”, and from the name of Tsarina Arsinoe - the second ( Ἀρσινόη - ς ἴ ф 3 Ἥ ) .

In the Middle Ages, magical effects were often attributed to anagrams, and therefore the search for anagrams often acquired a somewhat painful character. To this historical circumstance, the anagram owes a sharp passage in the book of the psychiatrist Cesare Lombroso “ Genius and insanity ”:

Hecartes , who said that only obsessed is involved in trifles, compiled biographies of the insane in Valenciennes. He wrote a curious book entitled: “ Anagrammeana, a poem in VII songs, XCV (this was the first) reviewed, revised and supplemented edition. In Anagrammatopolis, the year of the XI anagrammatic era ”(Valenciennes, 1821) and entirely consisting of a meaningless set of words with the rearrangement of letters in some of them. Here, by the way, it will be mentioned that on the margins of the copy of the anagram stored in the Paris National Library, the author himself wrote the following inscription: “Anagrams are one of the greatest errors of the human mind: you have to be a fool to play with them, and worse than a fool to make them up . ” What could be fairer than this assessment? ^[four]

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was customary among natural scientists to encrypt their discoveries in the form of anagrams ^{[5] [6]} , which served two purposes: hide the hypothesis before its final verification and approve the authorship of the discovery when it is confirmed. So, Galileo Galilei encoded the Latin phrase “Altissimun planetam tergeminum observavi” (“I watched the highest planet in triple”) as follows: “Smaismrmielmepoetaleu mibuvnenugttaviras”, securing his application for the discovery of Saturn’s moons ^[7] . It is interesting that this discovery was later codified by Christian Huygens in the anagram ^{[8] of the} phrase “It is surrounded by a ring, thin, flat, nowhere adjacent, inclined to the ecliptic”, specifying that Galileo did not see satellites, but parts of the ring .

• Slicing method
• Ananim

• Anagram // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• List of one-word anagrams obtained according to the dictionary of Zaliznyak
• Anagram Search Program