Iconograph

An iconograph is a picture formed by a word or words. It can take the form of irregularly shaped letters or (especially in the case of poems) irregularly aligned text.

For imp-powered photography, see Technology of the Discworld ยง Iconographs.
Not to be confused with Iconography.
A word iconograph of the initials "VDC" as an eye.

American poet May Swenson popularized such poems in her 1970 book Iconographs, which contained a number of poems laid out to resemble their subjects (e.g. a butterfly).[1]

References
  1. Swenson, May (1970). lconographs; Poems. The United States of America: Scribner. OCLC 89868.
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