* Bridging-title-style poems

The most distinguishing characteristic of a Bridging Title is that it is read as the first line of the poem it

Many poems take as their title the first line of the poem itself. With a Bridging Title, however, the first line of the poem is not a repeat of the title, but instead acts as the first line of the poem.

Creating a Bridging Title may be simply a matter of placing the first line of your poem in the “title” position. But it may also be used to introduce a certain irony.