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Originally Posted by Rory Waterman
parapoems (Gavin Ewart's term for poems that follow the form and trajectory of another, but without parodic intent).
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Thanks for mentioning this. I've long felt that others and we (including me) have been using "parody" for lots of poems that don't mean to parody. But did Ewart need to invent a word? Why is "pastiche" (according to Merriam Webster, "a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work") do disused?