Abdul-Rahman, AlfieLein, JulieColes, KatharineMaguire, EamonnMeyer, MiriahWynne, MartinJohnson, Chris R.Trefethen, AnneChen, MinB. Preim, P. Rheingans, and H. Theisel2015-02-282015-02-2820131467-8659https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12125In this paper, we present a user-centered design study on poetry visualization. We develop a rule-based solution to address the conflicting needs for maintaining the flexibility of visualizing a large set of poetic variables and for reducing the tedium and cognitive load in interacting with the visual mapping control panel. We adopt Munzner's nested design model to maintain high-level interactions with the end users in a closed loop. In addition, we examine three design options for alleviating the difficulty in visualizing poems latitudinally. We present several example uses of poetry visualization in scholarly research on poetry.