Mike's best ever anagrammatic poem is David Shulman’s sonnet, ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’, inspired by Emanuel Leutze’s famous painting of the same name.
Every line is an anagram of the painting’s title and yet the poem still works, even managing to include specialist, key references to the historical incident, including 'Redcoats', 'Continentals' and 'Hessian'!
The best place to read the poem is on Wikipedia where you can watch an animation in which the letters beautifully circulate into new positions as each new line is displayed!
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