ACROBATS
The poem "Acrobats" was written by Ian Hamilton Finlay in 1964. Its main and most important element is its form. It is made up only of the single letters of the word "acrobats". Every letter is repeated for all the line, five times if the verse is odd, four times if the verse is even. They are distanced so that the adjacent letters of the entire word do not belong to the same column. After the last letter, the sequence is repeated back to front. In the end, the group of letters generates a square, and the reader can see the word "acrobats" in several different ways (diagonally, backwards, broken etc.).
Therefore, the poem conveys the message that every event can be viewed in different ways, in the style of acrobats.

Through his exercises, the acrobat sees the world from a different point of view. Besides, it also shows that everyone  understands something in a personal  and unique mode.
However, the poem may also mean that we and our world are hanging in balance, like an acrobat on his apparatus. The poem itself is hanging in balance: it sufficies to move a letter to change its overall meaning.