Iconograph
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Robot-assisted [[WP:D|disambiguation]]: American
[[Image:Swenson-butterfly-iconograph unconscious-came-a-beauty dotumche.png|thumb|250px|right|A word-poem by [[May Swenson]] featuring a [[Red spotted purple]] or [[Mourning cloak]] butterfly. ]]
An '''iconograph''' is a word-picture, in which text is laid out to look like the topic of the text. The word was popularized by [[United States|American]] poet [[May Swenson]] in her 1970 book, ''Iconographs'', which contained a number of word-images with the poetry laid out to resemble the object, e.g. a [[butterfly]].
The term may also refer to any illustration used in a printed text.
The iconograph is also one of the [[Minor Discworld concepts]].
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