Poetry and Visual Design

A while back, we touched on my interest in kinetic design, in how movement, reflected by actual motor movement, or visual movement in art and or thorough the use of typography can reflect the will of the designer to create a particular mood and tone in a given work. Lately I have been exploring how music and poetry and the meter of the rhymes expressed in those types of work also can be used to create their own form of kinetic motion. Consider these words from a Stevie Ray Vaughan song:

Caught up in a whirlwind, can't catch my breath
Knee deep in hot water, broke out in a cold sweat
Can't catch a turtle in this ratrace
Feel like I'm losing time at a breakneck pace