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Constraints are very common in Poetry , which often requires the writer to use a particular verse form.

The most common constrained forms of writing are strict restrictions in Vocabulary , e.g. Basic English , E-Prime , Defining Vocabulary for dictionaries, and other limited vocabularies for teaching English As A Second Language or to children. This is not generally what is meant by “constrained writing” in the literary sense, which is motivated by more Aesthetic concerns. For example:


The Oulipo group is a gathering of writers who use such techniques.
The Outrapo group use Theatrical Constraints .

'' Gadsby '' is an English -language novel consisting of 50,100 words, none of which contain the letter “e.”

In 1969 , France ’s Georges Perec published '' La Disparition '', a Novel that did not include the letter “e.” It was translated into English in 1995 by Gilbert Adair as “ A Void .”

In '' (“The Train from Nowhere”) by Michel Thaler . {Link without Title}

One famous constrained writing in the Chinese Language is the Lion-Eating Poet In The Stone Den which consists of 92 characters, all with the sound ''shi''. Another is the Thousand Character Classic in which all 1000 characters are unique without any repetition.

Cadaeic Cadenza is a short book by Mike Keith using the digits of pi as the length of words.


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